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Foods ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 216
Author(s):  
Jakub Frankowski ◽  
Anna Przybylska-Balcerek ◽  
Kinga Stuper-Szablewska

More than 35% of the world sorghum seed production is a human food source. The main ingredient of fully ripe sorghum grains is starch. Sorghum does not contain gluten, and it is also a rich source of antioxidant compounds other than vitamins or macro- and microelements, including phenolic acids, flavonoids, and sterols. The aim of this study was to determine the antioxidant activity and the content of selected bioactive compounds, i.e., total phenolic acids, total flavonoids, and total phytosterols, as well as determination of the qualitative and quantitative profile of phenolic acids, flavonoids, and phytosterols in various food products, the basic ingredient of which was sorghum grain. It was found that antioxidant activity is related to the total phenolic compounds content. The ABTS•+ ranged from 319 to 885 µmol TROLOX/kg. However, white sorghum grain flour contained almost two times more polyphenols than red sorghum grain flour. The FPA ranged from 224 in raw pasta to 689 mgGAE/100 g in white sorghum grain. During this study, the quantitative profile of selected polyphenols in grain flour, wafers, pasta, and cookies containing sorghum grain was also investigated, as well as the content of 11 selected phenolic acids. Total content of the latter ranged from 445 to 2850 mg/kg. Phytosterols such as beta-sitosterol, campesterol, and stigmasterol were found in all the analyzed products. Based on this research, it was investigated that the products containing sorghum grains can be classified as functional food.


Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 2868
Author(s):  
Zhenhua Li ◽  
Xiaoyan Zhao ◽  
Xiaowei Zhang ◽  
Hongkai Liu

Sorghum is the fifth most commonly used cereal worldwide and is a rich source of many bioactive compounds. We summarized phenolic compounds and carotenoids, vitamin E, amines, and phytosterols in sorghum grains. Recently, with the development of detection technology, new bioactive compounds such as formononetin, glycitein, and ononin have been detected. In addition, multiple in vitro and in vivo studies have shown that sorghum grains have extensive bio-logical activities, such as antioxidative, anticancer, antidiabetic, antiinflammatory, and antiobesity properties. Finally, with the establishment of sorghum phenolic compounds database, the bound phenolics and their biological activities and the mechanisms of biological activities of sorghum bioactive compounds using clinical trials may be researched.


2021 ◽  
pp. 035-039
Author(s):  
Tadesse Marid ◽  
Ali Md Jamshed

This study was designed to assess the occurrence of major insects and rodent pest infestations in stored grain from two districts of Southwestern Ethiopia. Omo Nada and Bako Tibe districts were purposively selected because they are potential maize and sorghum growing regions with high postharvest losses. A total of 160 farmers’ stores from both the districts were randomly selected. The grain samples used in the present study were stored for five different time periods, ranging from 1 to 5 months and from the same farmers’ stores, to identify storage insect pest, determine grain weight loss and insect damage. The results showed that the dominant insect species in maize and sorghum grains were weevils (Sitophilus spp.) followed by the Angoumois gelechiid (Sitotroga cerealella Olivier) and flour beetles (Tribolium spp.). High number of insects were recorded from both plastered and un-plastered gombisa and polypropylene bags. Additionally, the amount of every insect pest in each storage container recorded per 100 g grain increased because the duration of grain storage increased. There have been 0.33-1.29g and 0.44-1g of rodent droppings per 100g sample of maize and sorghum grains, respectively. This showed that faecal dropping per 100 g grain increased along with increase in storage period. Grain damage showed significant (P<0.05) differences over the storage periods across the studied districts. A similar trend was observed for weight loss in each of the grains all districts. These results indicated that farmers are incurring a substantial grain loss to insects and rodent pests. Hence, there is an urgent need to devise appropriate tactics for protecting the losses in farm-stored maize and sorghum in Ethiopia.


2021 ◽  
Vol 924 (1) ◽  
pp. 012037
Author(s):  
S N A Putri ◽  
D P Utari ◽  
E Martati ◽  
W D R Putri

Abstract Sorghum is one of the most important source of carbohydrate and protein, but least utilized staple crops because of low nutrient bioavailability. The research aimed to study the fermentation of sorghum grains with Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 14977 (L. plantarum) on tannin content. The study employed two factors experiment of L. plantarum starter cultures concentrations (2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 %) and duration of fermentation. Samples were taken every 12 h during sorghum fermentation (72 h). The viability of microbes, pH, titratable acidity (TA) of the fermentation medium and tannin content of the fermented sorghum grains were measured. The results showed that at the end of fermentation (72 h), the pH decreased from 6.4 to 5.8-6.0, TA increased to 0.59, 0.63, 0.8, 0.95 and 0.88% at a starter cultures concentrations of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10%, respectively. Tannin content decreased significantly after fermentation for 48 h for all treatments. However, prolonged fermentation from 48 to 72 h did not reduce tannin.


2021 ◽  
Vol 924 (1) ◽  
pp. 012046
Author(s):  
E S Murtini ◽  
S Fathoni ◽  
I S Wardhana

Abstract Commercial extruded snacks available in the Indonesian market are generally cereal-based, such as from corn and rice, and there is not any that is from brown sorghum. This research aims to study changes in physical and chemical characteristics of brown sorghum grains after extrusion and compare the extrudate characteristics of products from brown sorghum grains, corn, and rice. Brown sorghum grains are de-husked, ground into grits, and extruded using a single screw extruder at 120°C. The resulting extrudates are then analyzed and compared to rice and corn extrudates. There is a change in chemical content after the sorghum grains are extruded. The content of moisture, fat, starch, and protein decreased, while the content of reducing sugar, ash, and fiber increased. The content of anti-nutritional compounds such as tannins, phytates, kafirin, and disulfide bonds decreased; so that the digestibility value increased from 48.44% (grains) to 75.67% (extrudates). Compared with extrudates from rice and corn, sorghum seed extrudate has the smallest expansion ratio, higher density, darker color, but still has a similar quality in texture.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Author(s):  
Abiola Stephen Okunade ◽  
Tinuola Tokunbo Adebolu ◽  
Michael Tosin Bayode

In this study, the effects of different steeping methods on the microbial quality of ‘ogi’ produced from Sorghum bicolor (Linn.) grains were carried out. The sorghum grains were divided into four parts; the first part (Sample A) was steeped with cold water at 30+ 2oC for 72 h and washed with water before milling, the second part (Sample B) was steeped with cold water at 30+2oC for 72 h but was not washed before milling, the third part (Sample C) was steeped with hot water at 30+2oC for 24 h and washed before milling, while the fourth part (Sample D) was steeped with hot water at 30+2oC for 24 h and was not washed before milling. The processed raw ‘ogi’ samples were subjected to standard microbiological techniques to enumerate the microorganisms present. The highest bacterial count of 3.5 x 103cfu/ml was observed in sample B, the highest fungal count of 2.5 x 104 sfu/ml was observed in sample B, while sample C yields the lowest bacterial count of 8.0 x 102 cfu/ml and fungal count of 4.0 x102 sfu/ml. Good hygienic conditions during the processing of the ‘ogi’ must also be employed to reduce the chances of microbial contamination.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irsa Ejaz ◽  
Siyang He ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Naiyue Hu ◽  
Chaochen Tang ◽  
...  

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) is a non-destructive, fast, and low-cost method to measure the grain quality of different cereals. However, the feasibility for determining the critical biochemicals, related to the classifications for food, feed, and fuel products are not adequately investigated. Fourier-transform (FT) NIR was applied in this study to determine the eight biochemicals in four types of sorghum samples: hulled grain flours, hull-less grain flours, whole grains, and grain flours. A total of 20 hybrids of sorghum grains were selected from the two locations in China. Followed by FT-NIR spectral and wet-chemically measured biochemical data, partial least squares regression (PLSR) was used to construct the prediction models. The results showed that sorghum grain morphology and sample format affected the prediction of biochemicals. Using NIR data of grain flours generally improved the prediction compared with the use of NIR data of whole grains. In addition, using the spectra of whole grains enabled comparable predictions, which are recommended when a non-destructive and rapid analysis is required. Compared with the hulled grain flours, hull-less grain flours allowed for improved predictions for tannin, cellulose, and hemicellulose using NIR data. This study aimed to provide a reference for the evaluation of sorghum grain biochemicals for food, feed, and fuel without destruction and complex chemical analysis.


Author(s):  
Chukwudi I. Nnamchi ◽  
Bartholomew N. Okolo ◽  
Anene N. Moneke ◽  
Bennett C. Nwanguma ◽  
Onyetugo C. Amadi ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Ewa Ropelewska ◽  
Leyla Nazari

AbstractThis study aimed to determine the discriminatory power of textural features to differentiate the sorghum grains subjected to normal, mild deficit, and severe deficit irrigation. The studies were carried out with the use of image processing, discrimination analysis, analysis of variance and cluster analysis using the selected texture parameters calculate for images from individual color channels L, a, b, R, G, B, U, V, S, X, Y and Z. The results indicated that different levels of irrigation can discriminate the sorghum grain with an accuracy of up to about 100%. Most of the genotypes for each level of irrigation were different in the terms of values of textural features and formed separate homogeneous groups. Drought is one of the limiting factors contributing to a decrease in sorghum grain productivity and nutritional quality, especially when it is cultivated in a marginal area. Therefore, low-quality grains produced under water stress should be recognized before they enter into the food and feed chain. The application of image analysis based on textures of sorghum grain images proved to be useful for the discrimination of sorghum grains subjected to drought stress. The applied procedure provided the fast, objective results that may be applied in practice for screening distinguishing the sorghum grains with different irrigation levels.


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