Value-added processing with respect to rice milling has
traditionally treated the rice bran layer as a homogenous
material that contains significant concentrations of highvalue
components. Rice bran fractionation allows for the
selective use of portions of the bran layer and is advantageous
for two reasons: (1) bran fractions contain much
higher concentrations of components of interest with
respect to the overall bran layer average, and (2) less bran
needs to be processed to obtain components of interest.
This research is important to the biological engineering
community because it uses bioprocess engineering methods
to isolate health related components of interest in a
biological product