Wheat wholemeal flour

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One property of the flour that is controlled by the miller is the extraction rate. Wholemeal flour has a 100% extraction rate, with brown, white and patent white having progressively reduced extraction rates. One obvious difference is the colour. Another is that the quality of the protein increase towards the middle of the wheat berry from which patent flour is produced. Thus, patent flour is sometimes used not to produce whiter bread but in products like hlo pastry or West Indian patties where the strength that patent flour gives is important and the colour is irrelevant. 

Almost any type of flour can be made as a wholemeal in principle. Wholemeal flour is what it says it is, i.e. all of the wheat. It is illegal to bleach fortify or add flour treatments to wholemeal flour. It is the only type of flour that does not have to be fortified as the natural minerals that were present in the wheat are all present in wholemeal flour. The wheat germ oil is also present. 

While any type of flour can be made in a wholemeal form some products probably can not be made from wholemeal flour. The problems are that although all the wheat protein is present the quality of the protein is lower towards the outside of the wheat berry. This effect would render the making of products requiring very high extensibility, e.g. filo pastry, very difficult. The other problem is that the bran particles tend to burst gas bubbles, reducing the amount of lift. Despite the above, wholemeal bread flour is common and wholemeal self raising flour can be made. 

Bread has been made in Norway from wheat flour 78% extraction (50 parts) barley flour 60% extraction rate (20 parts) wholemeal flour (30 parts) with extra fat added. 

The hydrocyclone process is applicable for processing hard and soft wheat flours, and perhaps even wholemeal flour.92 In addition to its versatility in processing different wheat classes, other advantages of the hydrocyclone process compared to the Martin process include an increased yield of gluten, lower water and energy requirements, and manageable levels of effluent. To ensure the food safety of wheat starch, quality programs in many companies dictate the implementation of hazard analysis and critical control points in the hydrocyclone process.24... 

Gluten is separated from ground wheat and used in the form of a dried powder as a supplement in bread for two reasons (a) to assist the base flour to carry the inert bran and sustain higher proof and loaf volumes in breads made from brown and wholemeal flours than would otherwise be possible and (b) to replace, wholly or partly, the protein in bread flour normally derived from high-protein wheat in the grist. 

Pesticide Wholemeal flour White flour Whole grain bread White bread Bran/Wheat... 

Materials. Wheat grain, wholemeal flour, bran and germ were obtained from commercial flour mills. Milling products were stored at -20 C within 12h of milling, or were stored at +20°C, 65% relative humidity. 

The rate at which milling products deteriorate under given conditions of storage is determined by level of lipase activity and particle size distribution 01 bran. In practical terms, storage of wholemeal at very low moisture and temperature is not feasible for several reasons. However, bran and germ may be stabilised by heat-moisture treatment and this is practised commercially. The relatively high heat stability of the lipase, precludes heat-treatment of wholemeal flour, because the essential functionality of wheat proteins is destroyed by less severe conditions than those required to inactivate the lipase. 

As reported elsewhere in this volume, a lipase, specifically located in the bran tissues of wheat grain, is responsible for the hydrolysis of endogenous triacylglycerols (TG) in wholemeal to free (unesterified) fatty acids, 60-65% of which are polyunsaturated fatty acids (F-puFA). This process occurs in wholemeal flour during storage under ambient conditions. 

BCR RM 40 Wholemeal Wheat Flour a <0.03 w.c. = 1.70 + 0.04 %. It is important to note that this material is likely to have handling problems due to its hygroscopic behavior. The water activity is in the range where the monomolecular surface layer of water may be removed. Thus, deterioration of the lipids is hkely to occur during storage. 

These products were developed to offer the consumer a fibre-enhanced bread that still tasted like white bread rather than brown or wholemeal. Various kibbled grains, e.g. kibbled rye and kibbled wheat are added. The addition can be made either in the bakery or at the flour mill. 

Early versions were not very successful but later versions were more satisfactory. Bread baked from a mixture of 65% wheat flour and 35% of stone ground wholemeal triticale has been marketed in the USA. 

Variations in the quality of bread depend essentially on the quality of the flour used, the method of preparation and the degree to which the baking is carried. Wheaten flour, which is that most commonly used for making bread, varies in composition according as the separation of the offals (bran, etc.) is more or less complete. Flour usually constitutes about 80% of the whole of the wheat, but bread may be made of wholemeal or even of meal containing an excess of bran. Other flours are also sometimes used for making bread, either alone or in admixture with wheaten flour. 

Sunflower meal (blended with wheat flour) can be used for human nutrition. Despite their dark color, sunflower protein concentrates are of excellent digestibility. A method was proposed (147) for obtaining sunflower protein concentrates from defatted wholemeal sunflower flour, through extraction of these proteins with a basic solution. The process yields a concentrate of 71% protein (dry basis), rich in glutamic and aspartic acids. The supernatant liquid, rich in potassium and phosphorous, can be used as agricultural fertilizer. 

Manufacturing processes can result in a substantial loss of the vitamin for example, during the milling of whole wheat to white flour, 75% of the folate is lost (B8). Bread was found to contain more folate than the flour fixim which it was made and this was due to the effect of the added yeast. Folate deficiency has been found to be relatively uncommon in Iran and this prompted Russell (R8) to measure the folate content of various Iranian breads since bread is the staple food in that country. They found village wholemeal bread to have a free folate concentration of 340 M.g/kg and leavened breads made... 

Czerny, M. and Schieberle, P. 2002. Important aroma compounds in freshly ground wholemeal and white wheat flour—identification and quantitative changes during sourdough fermentation. J. Agric. Food Chem. 50, 6835-6840. 

Wheat flour provides very little zinc, and in unleavened wholemeal bread much of the zinc that is present is not available for absorption because it is bound to... 

Zinc is the prosthetic group for many enzymes. It is also incorporated into the receptor proteins for steroid and thyroid hormones, calcitriol and vitamin A. Recommended daily intake of zinc is 10 mg/day. Zinc is found in all tissues of the body, but it is particularly high in the bone, liver and kidney. Zinc deficiency causes growth retardation, decreased wound healing and hypogonadism (i.e. much delayed puberty). It is only normally seen in populations whose diet is based on unleavened wholemeal bread, because wheat flour does not provide much zinc, and that which is available is bound to phytate. Phytate also inhibits the absorption of iron. Zinc depletion may also be caused by drugs such as thiazide and loop diuretics, and alcohol. Zinc deficiency can be successfully treated with replacement zinc therapy. 

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