Cereal grains carbohydrates

Starch, a reserve polysaccharide widely distributed in plants, is the most important carbohydrate in the human diet. In plants, starch is present in the chloroplasts in leaves, as well as in fruits, seeds, and tubers. The starch content is especially high in cereal grains (up to 75% of the dry weight), potato tubers (approximately 65%), and in other plant storage organs. 

Breads, cereals, grains, pastas, fruits, and vegetables are important sources of food primarily because they contain a good balance of all nutrients—carbohydrates, fats, proteins, nucleic acids, vitamins, and minerals. The predominant component of these foods is carbohydrates, however. 

In this presentation the interrelationships of carbohydrates and proteins in cereal grains and fibrous feeds will be discussed and related to selected aspects of processing of these materials. 

Fruits, vegetables, and whole-grain breads and cereals contain carbohydrates. This is also true of cookies, cakes, and most other sweets, since both flour and sugar come from plants—flour from wheat, and sugar from sugar cane. Potatoes, beans, popcorn, and rice are other examples of foods with carbs. 

Breads, cereals, and grains Carbohydrate, thiamine, iron, niacin... 

Jood, S., Kapoor, A.C., and Singh, R. 1993a. Available carbohydrates of cereal grains as affected by storage and insect infestation. Plant Foods Human Nutr. 43, 45-54. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has adopted a food pyramid to explain that carbohydrates in the form of cereals, grains, fruits, and vegetables should make up the majority of our diet. Fats and sweets should be consumed sparingly. Source U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

Starch is a condensation polymer made up of hundreds of glucose monomers, which split out water molecules as they chemically combine. Starch is a member of the basic food group carbohydrates and is found in cereal grains and potatoes. It is also referred to as a polysaccharide, because it is a polymer of the monosaccharide glucose. Starch molecules include two types of glucose polymers, amylose and amylopectin, the latter being the major starch component in most plants, making up about three-fourths of... 

In recent years, treating SBM with exogenous enzymes prior to feeding has received attention. These enzymes could potentially break down some of the carbohydrate fraction, thereby making the carbohydrates more available to the animal. A difficulty exists with SB structural polysaccharides in that the SB polysaccharides are more complex than those found in cereal grains (Annison Choct, 1993). This makes it potentially difficult to target cell wail components as a whole. Huisman et al. (1999)... 

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