Wheat is a major component within human consumption, and due to the large intake of wheat, it has an impact on human nutritional health. This study aimed at an increased understanding of how the content and composition of tocols may be governed for increased nutritional benefit of wheat consumption. Therefore, ten South African wheat cultivars from three locations were fractionated into white a...

Ripe Rhizophora mucronata has been consumed by mangrove society in Indonesia. The aim of the research was to study the potency of ripe R. mucronata fruit flour, reducing blood glucose level in Alloxan-induced diabetic rats. Ripe R. mucronata fruit flour was administrated to Alloxan (125 mg/kg body weight)-induced diabetic male Wistar rats at different doses (500, 1000, 1500 and 2000 mg/day/head...

Yellow field pea (Pisum sativum L.) fractions that were mainly protein (50%), fibre (90%) or starch (85%) were obtained from a commercial pea mill and mixed with wheat kernels or wheat flour. Based on the mortality and the number of offspring produced, protein-rich pea flour was more toxic than fibre, which was more toxic than starch. For the protein-rich pea flour mixed with wheat kernels, the...

The aim of the current study was to explore a novel method for measuring hydration and dissolution kinetics of the pulverized konjac flour (PK flour) from Amorphophallus albus using RVA-3D+ Rapid Visco Analyzer (RVA; Newport Scientific Pty Ltd., Australia). The results showed that RVA was a reliable fast technique for determining the hydration curve of PK flour. The test conditions determining ...

The study was conducted to address the issue of consumers’ willingness to pay for inclusion of cassava flour in bread in Lagos State. The data were collected randomly from a sample of 300 respondents in the state through the use of a well structured questionnaire. The contingent valuation method was adopted to estimate both the mean willingness to pay of consumers and the factors that affect th...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com the semi-arid plains of South Asia (particularly in India) and the Sahel region (south of the Sahara) in Africa. There are few milletbased industrial products and some authors attribute this to the low brand image that they would receive [1,2]. The grains are processed at the household level or small production workshops employing one to two people....

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com the semi-arid plains of South Asia (particularly in India) and the Sahel region (south of the Sahara) in Africa. There are few milletbased industrial products and some authors attribute this to the low brand image that they would receive [1,2]. The grains are processed at the household level or small production workshops employing one to two people....

The effects of different hydrocolloids on the gelatinisation behaviour of hard wheat flour were investigated. Influence of guar, xanthan, Arabic, carboxy methyl cellulose (CMC) and tragacanth gums on wheat flour was studied using micro viscoamylograph. It was found that all hydrocolloids except tragacanth greatly modified the gelatinisation properties of wheat flour. Guar and xanthan significan...

Findings are presented from the initial cross sectional phase of a cohort study of employees exposed to flour in bakeries or mills. Of 401 eligible workers in seven sites 344 (86%) were surveyed; symptoms assessed by self completed questionnaire, and sensitisation measured by the response to skin prick tests, were related to intensity of exposure both to total dust and to flour aeroallergen. Am...

In South America, the mesocarp flour of Prosopis species plays a prominent role as a food resource in arid areas. The aim of this work was the characterization of the phenolic antioxidants occurring in the pod mesocarp flour of Chilean Prosopis. Samples were collected in the Copiapo, Huasco and Elqui valleys from the north of Chile. The samples of P. chilensis flour exhibited a total phenolic c...