Engineering aspects of cereal and cereal-based products by Raquel de Pinho Ferreira Guine, Paula Maria dos Reis Correia

By Raquel de Pinho Ferreira Guine, Paula Maria dos Reis Correia

Cereal nutrients engineering has develop into more and more very important within the meals through the years, because it performs a key function in constructing new nutrients items and more advantageous production approaches. Engineering features of Cereal and Cereal-Based Products makes a speciality of the hot development in cereal know-how and baked meals technological know-how, reviewing the most recent updates in technological advancements in agricultural cultivation and processing for cereal scientists, nutrients engineers, and students.

Cereals contain an enormous variety of biochemical entities, very different in composition and houses, in addition to technological talents. The textual content discusses cereal construction, which varies based on cultural practices, kind of cereal, cultivar, and quarter. It additionally addresses transportation, garage, and cereal quality—important at each section from harvest to construction. Chapters disguise technological operations equivalent to rainy and dry milling and extrusion, they usually handle specific processing operations which are topic to advancements, together with bread and confectionary baking.

The textual content additionally examines malting, rice processing, breakfast cereals, and pasta. additionally, it explores new tendencies in cereal-based items and the results of processing on dietary and practical homes of cereal items. This e-book discusses the elemental components of cereal expertise, from creation to transformation, together with an important processing operations in cereal expertise, with emphasis at the engineering aspects.

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1997). Like the gliadins, the low molecular weight glutenins also determine the extensibility of the dough, whereas the high molecular weight glutenin subunits are closely correlated with dough strength (Shewry et al. 2003; Uthayakumaran et al. 2002). Due to this close, well-known correlation between high molecular weight glutenin composition and bread-making quality, the production of raw materials with optimum quality for the baking of various products can be best achieved through the integrated cultivation of wheat varieties with known high molecular weight composition.

It is gluten that enables the dough to retain the gases produced by yeast and thus to give wellrisen loaves. The bakery products produced using wheat flour thus have a light texture and are easily digestible (Gianibelli et al. 2001). It was by virtue of the flour’s ability to form dough that wheat became one of the most important raw materials for human nutrition. Wheat quality is influenced by the quantity, quality, and relative proportions of the gluten proteins. An increase in the low molecular weight gliadins results in a reduction in the dough development time (MT), the dough resistance (PR), the maximum resistance to stretching (Rmax), and the loaf volume, whereas the dough softening accelerates and the extensibility increases (Uthayakumaran et al.

On a large part of the maize-growing area, the environmental conditions do not allow the kernels to dry to the moisture content required for storage, especially in the case of hybrids with longer vegetation periods. The crop may be harvested as whole ears or as kernels, using a combine-harvester. The harvesting of ears, either manually or mechanically, can begin at a grain moisture content of 30% to 35%. The husks are then removed and the ears are stored in well-ventilated granaries where they dry without becoming moldy or musty.

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