Cereal grains are widely used of human foods and animal feed throughout the world. Cereals provide dietary protein, which also often has a functional role, as wheat gluten does in bread. Cereal proteins are unique in many ways: they are highly complex and heterogeneous, are often difficult to extract, and aggregate readily, making them difficult to characterize. Because of the economic importan...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the intakes of cereal and dairy products and their contribution to nutrient intakes in men and women from the Republic of Ireland with a view to formulating food-based dietary guidelines. DESIGN The North/South Ireland Food Consumption Survey established a database of habitual food and drink consumption using a 7-day food diary. From this database all cereal and dairy p...

The objective of this study is to explore the effects of cereal supplementation, which contains many nutritional factors including amino acids, on renal function and morphological structure in 5/6 nephrectomized rats. Male Spraque-Dawley rats, 250-300 g, were divided into sham control (Group 1) and nephrectomized (Group 2 and Group 3) groups. The 5/6 nephrectomy was performed by removal of the ...

The development of the protein body in the late stage of seed maturation is poorly understood, because electron-microscopy of mature cereal endosperm is technically difficult. In this study, we attempted to modify the existing method of embedding rice grain in resin. The modified method revealed the ultrastructures of the mature protein body in dry cereal grains.

BACKGROUND This study compared the effects of ingesting cereal and nonfat milk (Cereal) and a carbohydrate-electrolyte sports drink (Drink) immediately following endurance exercise on muscle glycogen synthesis and the phosphorylation state of proteins controlling protein synthesis: Akt, mTOR, rpS6 and eIF4E. METHODS Trained cyclists or triathletes (8 male: 28.0 +/- 1.6 yrs, 1.8 +/- 0.0 m, 75....

Cereal foods provide carbohydrates and dietary fibre, but also protein. To support the goals of sustainable development, cereal grain proteins should be more efficiently used to replace animal proteins. In Nordic countries, wheat is major source protein, followed by rye, oats, barley. Although oats have been traditionally consumed as many staple in countries new oat-based food concepts are emer...

BACKGROUND Cereal fiber is reported to be associated with obesity and metabolic diseases. However, whether cereal fiber improves leptin resistance and sensitivity remains unclear. DESIGN For 24 weeks, 48 male C57BL/6J mice were randomly given a normal chow diet (Chow), high-fat/cholesterol diet (HFD), HFD with 0.8% oat fiber (H-oat) or HFD with 0.8% wheat bran fiber (H-wheat). At the end of f...

Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) regulates blood pressure (BP) by hydrolytic actions. ACEinhibitors are widely used in the pharmacological treatment of hypertension. Certain food-derived peptides can also inhibit the activity of ACE. This study shows the occurrences of known ACE-inhibitory peptides in cereal storage protein structures. A literature search yielded thirty-nine candidate peptid...