Cereal Foods

Cereal-Based Functional Foods

EPR study of gamma – irradiated cereal foods

The results from the EPR studies on wheat and oat bran, rolled oats, buckwheat and different kind of rice – white, brown and parboiled rice before and after gamma-irradiation are reported. Before irradiation all samples exhibit one weak singlet EPR line characterized with common g-factor of 2.00480.0005 and six lines due to Mn naturally available in the plants. Only parboiled rice did not show...

5-Methyltetrahydrofolate Content of Cereal-Based Processed Foods

Improving periconceptional folate status reduces the risk of neonatal neural tube defects. Therefore, increased folate intake is recommended before and during the early stages of pregnancy through folic acid supplements or fortified foods. Folates also have a role in prevention of other diseases such as Cardiovascular, Cancers, Alzheimer [1]. Folates exist in a variety of forms related to the p...

Stability of added iodine in processed cereal foods.

The stability of iodine from iodized salt was measured in white bread, grain bread, sweet biscuits and the breakfast cereals, Weetbix (a flaked, pressed, wheat product), Ricies (a puffed rice product) and toasted muesli, as part of the New Zealand Government's initiatives to address the public health issue of low iodine intake by most New Zealanders. Triplicate runs of each product were manufac...

Cereal-based Foods Using Groundnut and Other Legumes

A review of studies conducted on applicationofflours or concen­ tratesfrom &.,oundnut, cowpea, and soybean to improve nutritional charac­ teristics of wheat-based bread and cookies, sorghum-baseduji, and sorghwn­ based kisra are presented.Acceptable cookies were made from compovites containing50%wheat, 35% gr'-undnut,and15% cowpeaflours.At this level of fortification, the protein content was 15...