Fatted and de-fatted soya flour - technical differences

[Hombre]

Are there any specialists out there that can tell me more about the technical difference between full-fat and de-fatted soya flour?

I believe that it has something to do with the method of extracting the oil, by pressing or using solvent.

So tell us something about it and is it the type of oil that's difficult for the bees to digest or is it just the quantity of oil involved?

 

[hedgerow pete]

i am under the impression that normal soya flour has up to and over 30 % fat in it where as low fat or defatted soya flour has less than 6%, and you are right the fat is removed either with solvents or heat.

i keep banging on about it as i was allways told that bees cant stomach any fat higher than 10 % max as it clogs up there internal organs to much with trying to digest it

 

[Arfermo]

Anybody got a source for smallish quantities of de-fatted or fat free soya flour please.

 

[Finman]

So tell us something about it and is it the type of oil that's difficult for the bees to digest or is it just the quantity of oil involved?

We have in grocery soya flour for human consumption which has 20% fat.

If there is no fat in soya. like in Hamlet Protein HP 100 forage, adding food oil is recommend.

Rape pollen has 7% oil, and that is why the the figure is kept as the top limit of fat content.

Food oil makes patty mote palatable to bees. Perhaps it makes it soft when bees bite with jaws the patty.

 

[Finman]

I have used this. It is an animal mother milk replacer.

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http://hamletprotein.com/us/segments-us/calves/view-movie-on-hp-100