At the upper value scale of cereals are malting barley for beer and Hard Red Spring wheat for bread baking as well as durum wheat for pasta. The typical features of all three are their protein contents. The relatively small portion of grain processed in the province for food or snacks, is capturing a good price, but large scale industrial processing of starch does not exist. It has been tried e.g. with fenugreek, but production cost was higher than the value that the starch could capture. Pea starch can be used as a mining depressant, but captures a much lower price then the pea protein. The protein achieves a higher market value both for food and for feed. Lower value grains with low protein content go to feed or to ethanol production. Typically, barley that does not make the grade or soft white wheat mostly go to feed lots. In the past, it did not appear profitable to add the cost of starch processing to these feed grains, because it requires a wet process and subsequently, it requires drying the starch, and this will cost more than feed or food markets can bear.
For this reason, we remove the valuable proteins from the grain, while using the cheap starch for industrial purposes. Both in the ethanol industry and also when manufacturing potash chemicals, it is of advantage to have proteins removed. The Prairie Carnation protein is of edible quality. This purified protein can be sold as a valuable feed or food product. For bioremediation, our protein is a valuable nutrient compound for the microorganisums which are used in the process.