ALBUMIN ENCAPSULATED LIPID FOOD SUPPLEMENT

A particulate composition which can be used as a fertilizer or feed or food additive for animals or humans is provided which comprises microencapsulated lipids in albumin. A process is also provided for making such composition which includes forming a dispersion or emulsion of globules of nutrient lipid within an aqueous albumin containing medium and thereafter forming a gel. The resulting gel can then be dried to form the particulate nutrient composition. This process is especially applicable in the use of animal blood as the source of albumin and provides for significant reduction of odors commonly associated with the drying of blood and thus represents a pollution control measure. The process can make a particulate nutrient feed additive or supplement which when fed to ruminant animals will preclude the bio-degradation of the majority of the nutrients in the rumen compartment of the stomach and thus provide for the manipulation of the site and form of assimulation of the nutrients by the ruminant is also provided.