Lunasin is a peptide from soybean seeds which has been demonstrated to have anticancer properties. It has also been reported in cereal seeds: wheat, rye, barley and Triticale. However, extensive searches of transcriptome and DNA sequence databases for wheat and other cereals have failed to identify sequences encoding either the lunasin peptide or a precursor protein. This raises the question of...

Extrusion cooking as an attractive process for continuous food production has been extensively developed in recent years. The high temperature–short time extrusion cooking is used in the food industry to produce direct expanded products such as snack foods, breakfast cereals and pet foods (Miller, 1990; Moore, 1994; Rokey, 1994). Extrusion of food material results in starch gelatinization, dena...

Various cereal brans (wheat, rice, barley and oat) were investigated for proximate composition, functional characteristics and certain anti-nutritional factors to assess their potentiality as protein and fibre sources. The major findings of this study are as follows: crude protein ranged from 9.615.03%, fat 4.07-19.31%, dietary fibre 14.0-38.95%, bulk density 0.39-0.59 g/ml, water absorption 11...

The present invention provides a biodegradable thermoplastic composition made of a cereal grain that is treated with an organic solvent, and optionally a cross-linking agent such as an aldehyde, an acid anhydride or an epoxide, to link together the starch and protein of the cereal grain. The compositions may be used to make extruded or molded articles that are biodegradable, water-resistant, an...

Purpose. To study the biological completeness of feed protein, including green mass cereal and leguminous fodder crops. find out role their aminoacid composition for farm animals feeding. Methods. Sampling was carried in accordance with State Standard Ukraine ISO 6497:2005, determination content moisture other volatile substances – 6496:2005, nitrogen crude protein 7169:2010. The amino acid det...

For at least 5000 years cereals have predominated as the arable crop grown to provide food for man and animals in the temperate climatic zones. They have been regarded as sources of energy and foods such as breads, spaghetti, chapattis, etc., require the addition of other protein sources to provide a satisfactory balanced diet. But cereals do contain significant amounts of protein, especially i...