Through the 1960’s, work by scientists in Uruguay, stood out above all others. This was part of a global effort, to find a dietary supplement for undernourished and starving children in the third world!
Methods of enzyme controlled digestion of fish meal were being tested. The aim was to convert fish meals it into highly digestible protein concentrate, while retaining essential ‘omega’ oils, for good health.
Homemade carp bait makers and commercial bait manufacturers all round the world have benefited from this research ever since! This really started the ‘ball rolling,’ of the world wide use of preparatory predigested ingredients in carp and catfish baits.
In catfish and carp baits, such predigested extracts enhance the nutritional benefits of ingredients, at less energy cost to the fish, and massively improve the fish attracting properties of baits.
One of the greatest examples of predigested protein for bait use, apart from the fish and shellfish meal extracts is top quality casein. This has a ‘possible’ predigested protein value of around 96 %. Top quality ‘lean’ fish meal extracts have with a ‘possible’ predigested protein value around 96 % too.
