Corn Gluten Meal 60% Protein

60% protein wet-milling co-product for poultry & aqua feed

Corn gluten meal is the high-protein co-product of corn wet milling, and it is specified on crude protein at 60% minimum (some lots run 62–65%), moisture at 12% maximum, crude fat around 2–3%, crude fibre at 3% maximum and ash below 3%, with a bright yellow colour from xanthophyll that is itself a selling point for egg-yolk and broiler-skin pigmentation. Aflatoxin and other mycotoxins concentrate in the meal relative to the grain, so their limits are tighter and more often tested than on corn itself. Two other products come out of the same mill and are sometimes confused with it: corn gluten feed, at 18–22% protein with the bran and steep liquor, a cheaper ruminant and swine ingredient; and DDGS from ethanol dry-milling, at 26–30% protein. All three have their uses; only the meal is a 60% protein product.

Buy corn gluten meal as a concentrated protein and pigment source for poultry rations, as a fishmeal replacement in aquafeed where its amino-acid profile (high in methionine, low in lysine) is balanced with other proteins, and as a pet-food ingredient; buy gluten feed for cattle and swine rations and DDGS where price per unit of protein wins. Supply comes from wet millers in the United States, China, Europe and Turkey, in bulk for the larger feed groups and in jumbo bags and 50 kg bags by container for everyone else. CBIL brokers corn gluten meal, gluten feed and DDGS against independent certification of protein, moisture, fat, fibre, ash, colour and the mycotoxin panel at load, in bulk, jumbo bags and 50 kg bags on FOB, CFR and CIF terms.