Enzomeal Fish Feed

Ohio Soybean Council Partners with Matrix to Promote EnzoMeal®
The Ohio Soybean Council (OSC) has licensedEnzoMeal®,an advanced soybean-based fish feed, to Matrix Sea Food India Ltd. (Matrix).The collaboration is expected to greatly expand the aquaculture industry’s access to this attractive alternative to fish meal and other soybean-based diets.
Matrix is a manufacturer of aqua feed and feed supplements. With headquarters in India, Matrix exports to several major economies in Southeast Asia, long considered the home of aquaculture, or “fish farming.” As a key part of this industry, Matrix recognizes both the opportunities and the challenges presented by today’s growing market.
Historically, fisheries have used fish meal, but the primary ingredients—wild fish and shrimp—are rapidly dwindling resources, making the feed expensive and unsustainable. The industry has turned to soybean meal because of its high protein content (around 48%), but that, too, has presented obstacles.Conventional soybean meal, when used at high levels in producing fish feed, contains carbohydrates that fish cannot easily digest.
Recognizing a market need, OSC and its research partner, Battelle, developed a process that removes non-digestible carbohydrates and increases crude proteins in the soybean meal. The resulting technology,EnzoMeal®, resolves the issues that to date have limited soybean use as a fish feed protein.
“Soybean meal provides much of what fish need: high protein, essential fatty acids, unsaturated fats, and a favorable amino acid profile,” explains Dr. Ram Lalgudi, Battelle senior scientist and the lead researcher behind the innovation. “But fish digestive systems aren’t accustomed to oligosaccharides—those are the carbohydrates—and there are other soybean compounds that can interfere with the digestive process. Our advanced process removes those substances so that the feed can include a much higher percentage of soybean meal.