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Flour and Breads and their Fortification in Health and Disease Prevention

  • 1st Edition - January 10, 2011
  • Newer edition is available
  • Editors: Victor R. Preedy, Ronald Ross Watson, Vinood B. Patel
  • Language: English

Bread and flour-based foods are an important part of the diet for millions of people worldwide. Their complex nature provides energy, protein, minerals and many other macro- and mi… Read more

Description

Bread and flour-based foods are an important part of the diet for millions of people worldwide. Their complex nature provides energy, protein, minerals and many other macro- and micronutrients. However, consideration must be taken of three major aspects related to flour and bread. The first is that not all cultures consume bread made from wheat flour. There are literally dozens of flour types, each with their distinctive heritage, cultural roles and nutritive contents. Second, not all flours are used to make leavened bread in the traditional (i.e., Western) loaf form. There are many different ways that flours are used in the production of staple foods. Third, flour and breads provide a suitable means for fortification: either to add components that are removed in the milling and purification process or to add components that will increase palatability or promote health and reduce disease per se.

Flour and Breads and their Fortification in Health and Disease Prevention provides a single-volume reference to the healthful benefits of a variety of flours and flour products, and guides the reader in identifying options and opportunities for improving health through flour and fortified flour products.

Key features

  • Examines those flour and bread related agents that affect metabolism and other health-related conditions
  • Explores the impact of compositional differences between flours, including differences based on country of origin and processing technique
  • Includes methods for analysis of flours and bread-related compounds in other foods

Readership

Nutritionists and Food Scientists interested in the specific health benefits of various flour resources

Table of contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Chapter 1. The Science of Doughs and Bread Quality

Chapter 2. Monitoring Flour Performance in Bread Making

Chapter 3. South Indian Parotta: An Unleavened Flat Bread

Chapter 4. Sourdough Breads

Chapter 5. Focaccia Italian Flat Fatty Bread∗

Chapter 6. Flour and Bread from Black-, Purple-, and Blue-Colored Wheats

Chapter 7. Emmer (Triticum turgidum spp. dicoccum) Flour and Breads

Chapter 8. Einkorn (Triticum monococcum) Flour and Bread

Chapter 9. Maize: Composition, Bioactive Constituents, and Unleavened Bread

Chapter 10. Amaranth: Potential Source for Flour Enrichment

Chapter 11. Quinoa: Protein and Nonprotein Tryptophan in Comparison with Other Cereal and Legume Flours and Bread

Chapter 12. Sorghum Flour and Flour Products: Production, Nutritional Quality, and Fortification

Chapter 13. Buckwheat Flour and Bread

Chapter 14. Non-Starch Polysaccharides in Maize and Oat

Chapter 15. Gluten-Free Bread

Chapter 16. Dietary Fiber from Brewer’s Spent Grain as a Functional Ingredient in Bread Making Technology

Chapter 17. Composite Flours and Breads: Potential of Local Crops in Developing Countries

Chapter 18. Legume Composite Flours and Baked Goods: Nutritional, Functional, Sensory, and Phytochemical Qualities

Chapter 19. Potential Use of Okra Seed (Abelmoschus esculentus Moench) Flour for Food Fortification and Effects of Processing

Chapter 20. Apricot Kernel Flour and Its Use in Maintaining Health

Chapter 21. Macadamia Flours

Chapter 22. Banana and Mango Flours

Chapter 23. Use of Potato Flour in Bread and Flat Bread

Chapter 24. Mineral Fortification of Whole Wheat Flour: An Overview

Chapter 25. Iron Particle Size in Iron-Fortified Bread

Chapter 26. Iodine Fortification of Bread

Chapter 27. Phytochemical Fortification of Flour and Bread

Chapter 28. Carotenoids of Sweet Potato, Cassava, and Maize and Their Use in Bread and Flour Fortification

Chapter 29. Production and Nutraceutical Properties of Breads Fortified with DHA- and Omega-3-Containing Oils

Chapter 30. Fortification with Free Amino Acids Affects Acrylamide Content in Yeast Leavened Bread

Chapter 31. Barley β-Glucans and Fiber-Rich Fractions as Functional Ingredients in Flat and Pan Breads

Chapter 32. Antioxidant Activity and Phenolics in Breads with Added Barley Flour

Chapter 33. Partial Substitution of Wheat Flour with Chempedak (Artocarpus integer) Seed Flour in Bread

Chapter 34. Effect of Starch Addition to Fluid Dough During the Bread Making Process

Chapter 35. Fermentation as a Tool to Improve Healthy Properties of Bread

Chapter 36. Apple Pomace (By-Product of Fruit Juice Industry) as a Flour Fortification Strategy

Chapter 37. Use of Sweet Potato in Bread and Flour Fortification

Chapter 38. Fortification of Bread with Soy Proteins to Normalize Serum Cholesterol and Triacylglycerol Levels

Chapter 39. Dietary Breads and Impact on Postprandial Parameters

Chapter 40. Fortification of Vitamin B12 to Flour and the Metabolic Response

Chapter 41. Metabolic Effects of β-Glucans Addition to Corn Maize Flour

Chapter 42. Lupine Kernel Fiber: Metabolic Effects in Human Intervention Studies and Use as a Supplement in Wheat Bread

Chapter 43. Metabolic Effects of Propionic Acid-Enriched Breads

Chapter 44. Folic Acid and Colon Cancer: Impact of Wheat Flour Fortification with Folic Acid

Chapter 45. Effects of the Soybean Flour Diet on Insulin Secretion and Action

Chapter 46. Metabolic Effects of Bread Fortified with Wheat Sprouts and Bioavailability of Ferulic Acid from Wheat Bran

Index

Product details

About the editors

VP

Victor R. Preedy

Victor R. Preedy BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSB, FRSPH, FRSC, FRCPath graduated with an Honours Degree in Biology and Physiology with Pharmacology. After gaining his University of London PhD, he received his Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists. He was later awarded his second doctorate (DSc), for his contribution to protein metabolism in health and disease. He is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry (Hon) at King’s College Hospital and Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at King’s College London. He has Honorary Professorships at the University of Hull, and the University of Suffolk. Professor Preedy was the Founding Director and then long-term Director of the Genomics Centre at King’s College London from 2006 to 2020. Professor Preedy has been awarded fellowships of the Royal Society of Biology, the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, the Royal Institute of Public Health, the Royal Society for Public Health, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Medicine. He carried out research when attached to the National Heart Hospital (part of Imperial College London), The School of Pharmacy (now part of University College London) and the MRC Centre at Northwick Park Hospital. He has collaborated with international research groups in Finland, Japan, Australia, USA, and Germany. To his credit, Professor Preedy has published over 750 articles, which includes peer-reviewed manuscripts based on original research, abstracts and symposium presentations, reviews and edited books.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, King’s College Hospital, London, UK; Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, UK; Visiting Professor, University of Hull, UK

RW

Ronald Ross Watson

Ronald Ross Watson, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Watson began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. He has done clinical studies in Colombia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States which provides a broad international view of public health. He has served in the military reserve hospital for 17 years with extensive training in medical responses to disasters as the chief biochemistry officer of a general hospital, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. Dr. Watson’s career has involved studying many lifestyle aspects for their uses in health promotion. He has edited over 100 biomedical reference books and 450 papers and chapters. His teaching and research focuses on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs of abuse in heart function and disease in mouse models.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and School of Medicine, Arizona Health Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

VP

Vinood B. Patel

Dr. Patel is a Reader at the University of Westminster. After completing his PhD at King’s College London, he continued his research experience by undertaking his post-doctoral studies in the laboratory of Professor Cunningham in the Department of Biochemistry at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, (Winston-Salem, NC, USA). This extensive project involved investigating mechanisms of hepatic mitochondrial ribosome dysfunction in alcoholic liver disease (ALD) using biophysical and proteomic techniques. These studies have led to new avenues in determining the pathology of ALD. His teaching areas at both post-graduate and undergraduate levels include clinical biochemistry, investigative pathology and laboratory investigation.
Affiliations and expertise
Reader, University of Westminster, London, UK

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