Four male Japanese were fed a semisynthetic diet including egg and soy powder as protein source for seven days (Basal-diet period), and in the following seven days 200 g of polished rice, wheat flour and buckwheat flour added at the expense of part of the corn starch and sugar in the basal diets (Test-diet period). Urine and feces were collected throughout both periods and the contents of nitro...

BACKGROUND Food allergy to lupine has frequently been reported in patients allergic to peanut or soy, and cross-reactivity between these legumes is known. Moreover, respiratory allergy to lupine has been described after inhalation, mostly at workplaces. Our aim was to study the frequency of lupine sensitization in European bakers with suspected bakers' allergy. Furthermore, associations between...

Cereal industry and its derived products have a big economic and social importance worldwide. Therefore, as wheat flour is a commodity for all bread and bakery industry, it is safety is of high nutrition and toxicological interest. In this investigation we intend to study and determine the content of twelve metals in 50 samples of wheat flour coming from a wheat flour industry. Macro elements s...

The antioxidative activities of durum wheat flour and its components on linoleic acid were examined at 50 degrees C and 12% relative humidity. The progress of the oxidation was monitored by the pressure change due to the oxygen consumption during the oxidation. The antioxidative capacities were assessed by the length of the induction period for the oxidation. Durum wheat flour and its methanol ...

A method for the determination of total selenium in wheat and wheat flour using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GFAAS) with palladium/ascorbic acid as a chemical modifier was studied. The effects of nickel nitrate, palladium/ascorbic acid, and palladium/magnesium nitrate as chemical modifiers on the sensitivity in the determination of selenite, selenate and selenomethionine by ...

The aim of this research was to study the effect of fortified pan bread with Lupine flour (5, 10 and 15 %) on the chemical, rheological and nutritional properties. Lupine flour showed higher levels of crude protein, ash, crude fat and fiber than the wheat flour. Conversely, wheat flour showed higher contents in carbohydrates. Rheological studies of dough showed clear differences between wheat f...

Flours of wheat, chestnut, acorn and lupin were evaluated in relation to phenolic compounds, antioxidant activity, and oxalate content. At the chemical level the results show some variability between samples by type of flour, and the sample of chestnut flour presented the higher value of oxalate (0.00348 mg/100g) when compared to the other samples in the study. Considering the content of phenol...

The effect of substitution of black glutinous rice flour for normal wheat flour on batter and cake properties was determined. Black glutinous rice flour was used to substitute 30, 50, 70 and 100% of wheat flour in a control cake formulation. Experimental data showed that pasting temperature, peak viscosity, final viscosity, breakdown and setback of all black glutinous rice and mixes flour sampl...

Majeed H., Jamshaid Qazi H., Safdar W., Fang Z. (2013): Microencapsulation can be a Novel tool in wheat flour with micronutrients fortification: Current trends and future applications – a review. Czech J. Food Sci., 31: 527–540. Wheat flour fortification can be a novel and effective food based approach to improve effective micronutrient deficiencies that affect millions of people worldwide espe...

Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a mycotoxin found in cereal grains and cereal-based foods. DON concentrations in finished products are reduced under some processing conditions, but not others. DON concentrations in flour, wheat and selected foods made from them under commercially relevant conditions were compared by GC with electron capture detection. Average concentrations (n = 9/item) in cookies, cra...