New cereals and pseudocereals in australia – Hype or real nutritional benefit?

Organic Production of Cash Cereals and Pseudocereals

Nanomedicine: real commercial potential or just hype?

What is the real commercial potential for nanotechnology and, in particular, nanomedicine? Depends on your definition. For example, if you think nanomedicine refers to Michael Crichton's self-replicating nanorobots traversing the body and healing disease (as in his 2002 novel Prey), I bet you will be waiting a long time (if ever) to see commercial fruition. On the other hand, if you envision na...

Polyphenols in Raw and Cooked Cereals/Pseudocereals/Legume Pasta and Couscous

Pasta and couscous are popular foods manufactured (in their traditional form) from durum wheat semolina. In recent years, the consumers' quest for novel, functional, gluten-free, wholegrain foods has prompted the industry to manufacture new pasta and couscous products in which durum wheat has been partially or totally replaced by other vegetable flours. Besides dietary fibre, these raw material...

Noninvasive coronary angiography: hype or new paradigm?

WHEN SONES INADVERTENTLY PERFORMED THE first coronary angiogram in 1958, he could not anticipate the profound future implications of that event. Four years later, when he reported his experience with more than 1000 procedures, the technique was still considered experimental and was dismissed by many leading authorities in cardiovascular medicine. Yet, the introduction of coronary angiography st...

Determination of Water-Insoluble β-d-Glucan in the Whole-Grain Cereals and Pseudocereals

Hozová B., Kuniak Ľ., Moravčíková P., Gajdošová A. (2007): Determination of water-insoluble β-d-glucan in the whole-grain cereals and pseudocereals. Czech J. Food Sci., 25: 316–324. Water-insoluble β-(1,3)-d-glucan (lichenan) was determined in 43 samples of various cereal (oats, barley, wheat, millet) and pseudocereal (buckwheat, amaranth) cultivars using a modified procedure with fungal α-amyl...