Quality protein maize (QPM) based composite flour for nutritionally vulnerable groups was developed using QPM, soybean and orange fleshed sweet potatoes (Caceapedo variety). Single flours of QPM was prepared by soaking the grains into cold water at ambient temperature for 24 hours, drained and then milled into flour using a conventional milling machine. Soybean flour was prepared by roasting th...

Cereal Chem. 82(2):166-172 One commercial bread wheat flour with medium strength (11.3% protein content. 14% mb) was fractionated into starch, gluten, and water solubles by hand-washing. The starch fraction was separated further into large and small granules by repeated sedimentation. Large (10-40 pm diameter) and small (1-15 pm diameter) starch fractions were examined. Flour fractions were rec...

Triticale (X Triticosecale Wittmack) is an artificial hybrid of wheat (Triticum sp.) and rye (Secale sp.) first bred in laboratories during the late 19 century. In little more than a century, triticale has developed from a biological curiosity to a practical crop. Plant breeders have made efforts to overcome main problems of triticale: preharvest sprouting, susceptibility to diseases, sensitivi...

233 Plantains and bananas (Musa sp.) are important starchy staples in Ghana. Processing of plantains into flour is limited as most plantain foods are eaten as boiled, fried or roasted. However, after the introduction on local and foreign markets of instant plantain fufu (popular West African food) flour consisting of plantain flour and cassava starch, interest in plantain flours as a commercial...

Green banana flour was extruded through a co-rotating twin-screw extruder with constant barrel temperature. The objectives of this study were to determine the effect of extrusion cooking variables (feed moisture, FM, 20% and 50%; screw speed, SS, 200 and 400rpm) and storing of the extruded flours at 4°C for 24h on the physicochemical properties, resistant starch (RS), pasting properties and ant...

BACKGROUND baker's asthma is a well-known occupational lung disease which usually develops in adults. We report the case of a two years old boy who suffered from asthma, urticaria and atopic dermatitis for twelve months, whose symptoms were associated to visits to his grandfather's bakery. METHODS AND RESULTS skin prick tests (SPT) were made to dust mites, moulds, flours, alfa-amylase and egg...

The objectives of this study was to investigate the influences of increasing levels of transglutaminase (TG) on dough rheological properties and the characteristics of white salted noodles regarding two Korean wheat cultivars, cvs. Keumkang and Younbaek, and commercial wheat flour for noodle making (Com), and to evaluate quality of white salted noodles from 13 Korean wheat flours with the 0.4% ...

This study measured the solvent retention capacities (SRCs) of flours from eight oat varieties and one wheat variety against different solvents to explore the swelling volume of oat flour with different solvents, and thus provide a theoretical basis for quick β-glucan analysis. The SRC profile consists of water SRC (WSRC), 50% sucrose SRC (SSRC), 5% lactic acid SRC (LASRC), 5% Na₂CO₃ SRC (SCASR...

Nowadays the high nutritional value of whole grains is recognized, and there is an increasing interest in the ancient varieties for producing wholegrain food products with enhanced nutritional characteristics. Among ancient crops, einkorn could represent a valid alternative. In this work, einkorn flours were analyzed for their content in carotenoids and in free and bound phenolic acids, and com...

Cassava is widely available worldwide but bread quality is impaired when cassava is used in the bread formulation. To overcome this problem, different improvers were tested in the preparation of composite cassava-maize-wheat (CMW) breads. Emulsifiers, diacetyl tartic acid ester of monoglycerides (DATEM), sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate (SSL), and lecithin (LC); and hydrocolloids, carboxymethylcellu...