The starch-rich endosperms of the Poaceae, which includes wild grasses and their domesticated descendents the cereals, have provided humankind and their livestock with the bulk of their daily calories since the dawn of civilization up to the present day. There are currently unprecedented pressures on global food supplies, largely resulting from population growth, loss of agricultural land that ...

To draw attention to the necessity of considering differences in the digestibility of carbohydrates, and more specifically of starch, a symposium was held at the 12th European Nutrition Conference (FENS), which took place in Berlin from October 20 to 23, 2015. The purpose of this session was to present the consolidated knowledge and recent advances regarding the relationship between slow-releas...

A detailed and comprehensive understanding of seed reserve accumulation is of great importance for agriculture and crop improvement strategies. This work is part of a research programme aimed at using Brachypodium distachyon as a model plant for cereal grain development and filling. The focus was on the Bd21-3 accession, gathering morphological, cytological, and biochemical data, including prot...

In a previous investigation conducted in this laboratory (1) a starch polysaccharide, apparently identical with the watersoluble component of the common cereal and tuber starches, was isolated from the woody tissue of the apple tree (Malus malus). Thus it appears that starches of widely different origin may contain a common water-soluble polysaccharide. Through an application of the method (2) ...

In a previous investigation conducted in this laboratory (1) a starch polysaccharide, apparently identical with the watersoluble component of the common cereal and tuber starches, was isolated from the woody tissue of the apple tree (Malus malus). Thus it appears that starches of widely different origin may contain a common water-soluble polysaccharide. Through an application of the method (2) ...

Cereal Chem. 69(5):542-546 The changes in rheological properties of a wheat flour dough due to the wheat flour dough were clearly influenced both by the type of the addition of enzymes were measured. The dough, made of flour of a-amylase and by mixing protease with the a-amylase. The presence of standard baking quality, was characterized by oscillatory measurements a-amylases caused a decrease ...

Starch performance along digestion is becoming of utmost importance owing to the extensive presence starch in foods and its association glycaemic index. However, scarce information exists on relationship between digestibility gels their microstructure. The aim study was identify rate degree from different botanical sources impact microstructure with vitro (IVSD) by fitting hydrolysis kinetics. ...

Ethyl alcohol is produced in the United States by two major procedures, fermentation and chemical synthesis. Practically all current industrial ethyl alcohol is manufactured synthetically from petroleum and natural gas. All beverage alcohol is produced through the fermentation of cereal grains, molasses. and other materials with high starch and sugar content. Chemically, both alcohols are essen...

Cereal Chem. 70(2):137-144 Wheat and corn starches were phosphorylated in a semidry state at P from phospholipids), and its pasting properties showed optimum 1300C with 5% (based on dry starch) sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP) thickening power with shear stability when cooked at 950C. The best and/or 2% sodium trimetaphosphate (STMP). All phosphorylation corn starch phosphate, judging from its pa...