scholarly journals Use of pseudo cereals in food production

2021 ◽  
Vol 845 (1) ◽  
pp. 012112
Author(s):  
IB Krasina ◽  
E V Filippova ◽  
A N Kurakina ◽  
M A Fedorova

Abstract Pseudo-cereals grains, edible seeds, which belong to dicotyledonous plants, are becoming in demand in the human diet as gluten-free grains with excellent nutritional and nutraceutical value. Quinoa, amaranth and buckwheat are the most important pseudo-cereals. Recently, pseudo-cereals have attracted attention because of their high nutritional value of proteins, and their storage proteins are not toxic to celiac patients. In addition, seeds are an important source of dietary fibre and phenols, which are beneficial to health. Research has shown the suitability of amaranth, quinoa and buckwheat flour as a substitute for grain flour in the production of gluten-free biscuits. The article represents data on the chemical and functional composition of amaranth, quinoa and buckwheat and considers the production possibility of gluten-free biscuits using an experimental mixture design to optimize a ternary mixture of amaranth, quinoa, and buckwheat flour in terms of colour parameters, specific volume and hardness. Nutritional and sensory aspects of the optimized formulation were also assessed. The resulting biscuits based on the flour blend of pseudo-cereals were characterized as a product rich in dietary fibre, a good source of essential amino acids, linolenic acid and minerals, with good sensory acceptability. The data presented testify to the possibility of using the flour blend of amaranth, quinoa and buckwheat as an alternative ingredient for gluten-free biscuits.

e-xacta ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Paloma Souza Pires ◽  
Gustavo Silva Levatti Quadros ◽  
Gabriella Giani Pieretti Gadelha

<p><em>A Doença Celíaca (DC) é caracterizada por um processo inflamatório no intestino delgado ocasionado pela presença de um composto heterogêneo formado por gliadinas e gluteninas que, basicamente, são proteínas de armazenamento do trigo designadas como glúten. A deficiência em relação à disponibilidade e acesso a produtos isentos de glúten caracteriza uma situação de insegurança alimentar e nutricional do indivíduo celíaco e, devido à dificuldade encontrada por esse público em adquirir produtos básicos que atendam às suas necessidades, o presente trabalho teve como objetivos elaborar farinhas a partir da secagem dos vegetais: beterraba, cenoura e espinafre, desenvolver três formulações de pães sem glúten à base do produto farináceo desses vegetais e realizar a caracterização sensorial - utilizando métodos instrumentais - físico-química e microbiológica. Três formulações foram desenvolvidas e realizaram-se análises físico-químicas de umidade, atividade de água, cinzas, proteínas, fibra alimentar, lipídeos, acidez, pH e carboidratos. Dentre elas, observou-se que o pão de beterraba obteve o maior percentual de umidade e proteína. O pão de espinafre destacou-se pelo alto teor de cinzas, evidenciando seu alto valor nutricional em relação aos minerais. Já o pão de cenoura obteve o menor percentual de lipídeos. As análises instrumentais de cor e textura estão de acordo com o obtido por outros autores que estudaram pães sem glúten. Como critério de segurança, realizou-se análises microbiológicas de coliformes a 45 °C e Salmonella sp. O pão sem glúten à base de farinha de vegetais pode ser uma opção para agregar valor nutricional à alimentação dos pacientes celíacos.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>ABSTRACT</em></p><p><em>Celiac Disease (DC) is characterized by an inflammatory process in the small intestine caused through the presence of a heterogeneous compound formed by gliadins and glutenins, which are basically wheat storage proteins called gluten. The deficiency in the availability and access to gluten-free products characterizes a situation of food and nutritional insecurity of the celiac individual and, due to the difficulty encountered by this public in acquiring basic products that meet their needs, the present work had as objectives to elaborate flours from the drying of the vegetables:  beet, carrot and spinach flour, to develop three gluten-free bread formulations based on the farinaceous product of these vegetables and to perform the sensorial characterization - using instrumental methods - physical-chemical and microbiological. Three bread formulations were developed, and physical-chemical analyzes of moisture, water activity, ashes, proteins, dietary fiber, lipids, acidity, pH and carbohydrates were carried out. Among them, it was observed that the beet bread obtained the highest percentage of moisture and protein. The spinach bread was distinguished due the fact of the high ash content, evidencing its high nutritional value in relation to the minerals. Carrot bread, on the other hand, obtained the lowest percentage of lipids, that is, with less fat content. The instrumental analyzes of color and texture are in agreement with the one obtained by other authors who studied gluten-free breads. As a safety criterion, microbiological analyzes of coliforms at 45 °C and Salmonella sp. Gluten-free bread based on vegetable meal may be an option to add nutritional value to the diet of celiac patients.</em></p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 618-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Karp ◽  
Jarosław Wyrwisz ◽  
Marcin Andrzej Kurek ◽  
Agnieszka Wierzbicka

The biggest challenge in the production of gluten-free baked products is creating a structure without gluten while maintaining physicochemical and sensory properties. The aim of this study was to evaluate the possibility of applying oat β-glucan as the thickening and structure-making agent instead of xanthan (control sample), due to its pro-health technological properties, in yeast-leavened gluten-free cake. Thus, high-in-β-glucan oat fibre powder was incorporated into cake formulations as 5, 10, 15 and 20% replacement of rice or corn flour. The complex analysis of physicochemical and sensory properties was conducted, where texture and rheological aspects were the most important. An analysis of the correlation between rheological and physical properties was also conducted. Corn and rice cakes differed, but the results showed the increase of β-glucan, total dietary fibre, springiness, cohesiveness, storage (G′) and loss (G″) modulus and the decrease of firmness and lightness. Improvement of porosity and volume was also noticed. Significant correlation was observed among G′, G″, specific volume and texture components. Accelerated texture changes were noticed after 24 h of storage. To sum up, it is justified to incorporate oat fibre into gluten-free baked products, both to increase nutritional value and improve cake structure.


2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 227-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Zand ◽  
Denisse Bender ◽  
Stefano D’Amico ◽  
Sandor Tömösközi ◽  
Henry Jaeger ◽  
...  

Summary The purpose of this research was to improve the functional properties of gluten-free (GF) wholemeal buckwheat bread by sourdough fermentation and addition of arabinoxylan (AX) and pyranose 2-oxidase (POx). AXs are able to cross-link to other AX molecules under acidic conditions, which is supported by the addition of oxidizing enzymes (e.g., POx). On a first approach, the optimal sourdough concentration (% acidification of total flour weight) was adjusted. The best results were seen at an acidification of 82% of total flour weight. The optimal dosage of 3% AX and 1 nkat POx/g flour was able to increase the specific volume from 1.80 to 1.93 cm3/g bread and reduce the firmness from 9.61 to 4.69 N compared to the control bread and presented an acceptable relative elasticity of 62.20 ± 0.96%. These effects were then compared in breads produced from wholemeal and refined buckwheat flour. Interestingly, the wholemeal buckwheat bread showed a significantly lower firmness and higher relative elasticity than the bread from refined flour, which can be mainly attributed to the higher protein and dietary fibre content of wholemeal flour. Overall, this study suggested that addition of AX and POx could positively increase the quality of GF buckwheat bread.


The inferior nutritional value of cereal protein is primarily because of the high content of the storage protein prolamin. These proteins are in general characterized by a very high content of proline and glutamine and a low content of lysine and other nutritionally essential amino acids. The cereals vary with respect to prolamin and lysine content. Rice and oats have a relatively low prolam in content, around 10% , and an acceptable lysine content. W heat and barley contain 40-45% prolamin and about 3.5% lysine, while maize and sorghum contain more than 50% prolamin in their seed protein, that results in a lysine content below 2.5% . Intensive screenings for changes in endosperm morphology, protein composition, or lysine content have led to the detection of a number of mutants with reduced prolamin content and increased content of lysine and other essential amino acids. These high-lysine and low-prolamin mutants have a considerably improved nutritional value of the seed protein. However, all the mutants found so far are also characterized by a reduced starch content and grain yield, and high-lysine varieties have only been grown to a very limited extent. The present main approaches studied to improve the nutritional value of cereal proteins are (i) the replacement of some of the prolamin with lysine-rich storage proteins present in low amounts in the seed, and (ii) the improvement of the nutritional value of prolam in by genetic engineering.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 5535
Author(s):  
Sachin Umesh Dubey ◽  
Madhu Kanta Kapoor

Moringa oleifera Lam., commonly found tree in sub-Himalayan tracts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan has a high nutrition value. The leaves, flowers and immature pods of Moringa are used as a vegetable in many countries. The leaves are highly nutritious and medicinal in nature. They are a rich source of iron, calcium, vitamin A, vitamin C, proteins, and essential amino acids. Hence Moringa leaves can be a good source of protein for the vegetarians and the under-nourished population. Present investigation deals with the study of monthly variation in the nutritional value of Moringa leaves from the month of June 2015 to January 2016. Impact of urban sewage pollution and roadside vehicular pollution on the amount of reducing and total sugars, chlorophylls (a, b and total), proteins, vitamin-C and pH of the leaves, was also studied. Results revealed that the highest amounts of reducing sugars, total sugars, chlorophyll b and total chlorophyll during October 2015 whereas proteins, chlorophyll a, vitamin C and pH were highest during January 2016. Leaf samples collected from all the study sites exhibited minimum amounts of reducing sugars, chlorophylls (a, b and total) and pH during July 2015 whereas total sugars were lowest during December 2015. Proteins and vitamin C values were lowest during August and June 2015 respectively. Sewage and vehicular pollution showed an adverse effect on the nutritional contents of Moringa oleifera leaves. Of the two polluted sites, samples from near the sewage flow showed higher impact.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 4972
Author(s):  
Lata Birlangi

The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is one of mankind’s oldest cultivated plants. The fruit of the date palm is an important crop of the hot arid and semi-arid regions of the world. It has always played a genuine economic and social part in the lives of the people of these areas. The present objective in examining the amino acid content of different varieties of date palm fruits from Middle-East region; is to determine whether its protein could effectively supplement the nutritional value and it is also aimed in finding which variety is rich in number of amino acids. The phytochemical screening revealed the presence of eight essential amino acids and five non-essential amino acids in the date fruits. Among all the date fruit varieties taken as samples for the study, Dabbas cultivar of United Arab Emirates found to exhibit eight types of amino acids which includes five as non-essential ones. Total of thirteen amino acids were detected in the seven date cultivars. Determination of amino acid can serve as a guide to the possible nutritional value.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (15) ◽  
pp. 4442
Author(s):  
Michela Costantini ◽  
Carmine Summo ◽  
Michele Faccia ◽  
Francesco Caponio ◽  
Antonella Pasqualone

Gluten-free (GF) products, including pasta, are often characterised by nutritional deficiencies, such as scarce dietary fibre and excess of calories. Chickpea flour is increasingly being used by the food industries. Hulls, rich in dietary fibre and bioactive compounds, are discarded after milling. The aim of this work was to evaluate the quality features of short-cut GF fresh pasta added of hull (8% w/w) derived from kabuli (KH) or Apulian black (ABH) chickpeas, in comparison with control GF pasta prepared without hull. The enriched pasta, which could be labelled as “high fibre”, was characterised by a higher level of bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity than the control. ABH-enriched pasta showed the highest anthocyanins (33.37 ± 1.20 and 20.59 ± 0.11 mg/kg of cyanidin-3-O-glucoside on dry matter in raw and cooked pasta, respectively). Hull addition increased colour intensity and structural quality of GF pasta: ABH-enriched pasta had the lowest cooking loss and the highest water absorption capacity; KH-enriched pasta showed the highest firmness. No significant differences in sensory liking were found among the samples, except for “aftertaste”. Chickpea hull can be used as an innovative ingredient to produce potentially functional GF pasta, meeting the dietary needs of consumers without affecting quality.


Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1213
Author(s):  
Elena Martínez ◽  
Rita García-Martínez ◽  
Manuel Álvarez-Ortí ◽  
Adrián Rabadán ◽  
Arturo Pardo-Giménez ◽  
...  

Cookies, which form the largest category of bakery snacks, are considered a good vehicle to introduce nutrients into the diet. In this study, to increase the nutritional value of traditional commercial cookies, wheat flour was substituted with defatted flours made from flax, sesame, chia, and poppy, which are byproducts of the oil extraction industry. The differences in the technological properties, nutritional composition, and consumer acceptance of the reformulated cookies were evaluated. The results show that the wheat cookies used as the control showed a more elastic behavior than the cookies elaborated with defatted seed flours, which showed a greater tendency to crumble. The use of defatted seed flours yielded cookies with a higher content of protein and fiber, and a lower content in carbohydrates than the wheat cookies. Consumer evaluations for the sesame and flax cookies were similar to those for the traditional wheat cookies, with positive assessments on all of the parameters evaluated. On the other hand, the cookies elaborated using chia and poppy flours received the least positive evaluations from consumers. Thus, the use of some defatted seed flours, mainly flax and sesame, is proposed as an interesting alternative to produce health-promoting cookies in order to cover the current demand for gluten-free products.


Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Natalia Śmietana ◽  
Remigiusz Panicz ◽  
Małgorzata Sobczak ◽  
Przemysław Śmietana ◽  
Arkadiusz Nędzarek

The aim of the study was to present a comprehensive characterisation of crayfish meat, which is crucial to assess its potential usefulness in the food industry. To this end, we assessed the yield, basic chemical composition (protein, fat, minerals), nutritional value (amino acid and fatty acid profiles, essential amino acid index (EAAI), chemical score of essential amino acids (CS), hypocholesterolaemic/hypercholesterolaemic ratio (h/H), atherogenicity (AI) and thrombogenicity (TI) indices), as well as culinary value (lab colour, texture, sensory characteristics, structure) of the meat of spiny-cheek crayfish (Faxonius limosus) (n = 226) from Lake Sominko (Poland) harvested in May–September 2017. Crayfish meat, especially that from the abdomen, was shown to have high nutritional parameters. It is lean (0.26% of fat), with a favourable fatty acid profile and a very high quality of fat (PUFA (sum of polyunsaturated fatty acids):SFA (sum of saturated fatty acids), n-6/n-3, h/H, AI, TI) and protein (high CS and EAAI). It is also a better source of Ca, K, Mg, Na, P, and Cu than meat from slaughter animals. Hence, crayfish meat can be an alternative to livestock meat in the human diet. Owing to its culinary value (delicateness, weak game flavour, and odour), it meets the requirements of the most demanding consumers, i.e., children and older people.


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