Nutritional Supplement Prepared from Whole Meal Wheat Flour, Soya Bean Flour, Flaxseed and Anise Seeds for Alleviating the Menopausal Symptoms

The Soya Bean and the New Soya Flour

The soya bean has been one of the staple foods of China and Japan for centuries; but it has never been consumed to any extent by other nations. Hitherto it has been grown chiefly in Manchuria, whence it is exported to Europe and America. The cost of production is low. In composition it is rich in fat and protein. In fact it resembles meat more in composition than other legumes or cereals do. It...

Nutritional Profile of Whole-Grain Soft Wheat Flour

Cereal Chem. 88(5):473–479 Whole-grain wheat flour is used in baking to increase fiber content and to provide vitamins from the bran layers of the kernel. We surveyed whole-grain soft flour samples from North America to determine the nutritional profile using recently revised fiber quantification protocols, Codex 2009.1. Standard compositional and vitamin analyses were also included in the surv...

Phytochemical Composition and Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Extracts from the Whole-Meal Flour of Italian Durum Wheat Cultivars

In this study, the quali-quantitative composition of hydrophilic (phenolic acids) and lipophilic (isoprenoids) extracts from whole-meal flour of five elite Italian durum wheat cultivars was determined. Significant differences in the content of bioactive compounds were observed among the wheat extracts, in particular concerning the content of bound phenolic acids, lutein and β-tocotrienols. The ...

Effect of wheat flour, Bengal gram flour and corn flour on lipid metabolism in rats.

Male albino rats were fed on respective diets of wheat flour, Bengal gram flour and corn flour for 8 weeks at the 59% level. It was observed that the increase in weight after wheat flour and Bengal gram flour feeding was 6.8 and 12.0% respectively and that the decrease after corn flour feeding was 5.2% as compared to the control animals on sucrose diet. Serum cholesterol and liver cholesterol l...

Thermal Properties of Wheat Flour