Unripe and ripe plantain were dried and milled into flour and used with wheat flour in biscuit production to determine the best plantain-wheat composite flour for biscuit production. The blends as follows: 100% wheat flour, 100% ripe plantain flour, 100% unripe plantain flour, 50% wheat flour and 50% ripe plantain flour and 50% wheat flour and 50% unripe plantain flour. The Biscuit samples were...

Experimental comparisons of the nutritional value of different wheat cultivars commonly use feeds in meal form even though the large-scale broiler producers use steam pelleted feeds. The aim of this experiment was to examine the effect of steam pelleting on the performance, dietary N-corrected apparent metabolisable energy (AMEn), total tract dry matter retention (DMR), nitrogen retention (NR) ...

A technique is described for estimating moisture content of small samples of hard red winter wheat (10 to 30 kernels) by impedance measurements at 1 and 4.5 MHz on a parallel-plate capacitor holding the sample between the plates. The measurement system was calibrated by measurements on samples, ranging from 9 to 20% moisture content, wet basis, from three wheat cultivars grown in 1991 and 1992,...

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND Natural background radiation is the main source of human exposure to radioactive material. Soils naturally have radioactive mineral contents. The aim of this study is to determine natural ((238) U, (232) Th, (40) K) and artificial ((137) Cs) radioactivity levels in wheat and corn fields of Eilam province. METHODS HPGe detector was used to measure the concentration act...

BACKGROUND Tarhana is a fermented cereal product that is used for the preparation of one of the favourite soups in Turkish cuisine. Tarhana is a mixture of wheat flour, yoghurt, baker's yeast, salt, and various vegetables, spices and seasonings. It is obtained by mixing all ingredients in the recipe and afterwards the mixture is let to ferment at room temperature. Following fermentation tarhana...

Wheat is a common raw material used to provide most of the energy and a great portion of amino acids in poultry diets. The routine investigation of metabolizable energy (ME) and digestible amino acid content determination are costly and time consuming for wheat grains. Therefore, it would be helpful if the energy and digestible amino acid content of wheat grain samples could be predicted from t...

The aim of this study was to develop a multicomponent analytical method for the determination of deoxynivalenol (DON), ochratoxin A (OTA) and zearalenone (ZEN), nivalenol (NIV), 3-acetyl-DON (3-acDON), 15-acetyl-DON (15-acDON), zearalenol (ZOL) and citrinin (CIT) in wheat. It also aimed to survey the presence and amounts of DON, OTA and ZEN in Belgian conventionally and organically produced whe...

Stem rust is one of the most potentially harmful wheat diseases, but has been effectively controlled in China since 1970s. However, the interest in breeding wheat with durable resistance to stem rust has been renewed with the emergence of Ug99 (TTKSK) virulent to the widely used resistance gene Sr31, and by which the wheat stem rust was controlled for 40 years in wheat production area worldwide...

Trichothecin, a toxic metabolite of Trichothecium roseum, was detected in 3 of 13 wheat samples examined at levels of 560, 290, and 270 ng/g. In addition, all the T. roseum isolates from the wheat produced the toxin on wheat.