Protein Digestibility of Cereal Products

Foods

Iris Joye¹ 

[1] Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada;

关键词: protein digestibility;    cereals;    pseudocereals;    processing;    antinutritional factors;   

DOI  :  10.3390/foods8060199

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Protein digestibility is currently a hot research topic and is of big interest to the food industry. Different scoring methods have been developed to describe protein quality. Cereal protein scores are typically low due to a suboptimal amino acid profile and low protein digestibility. Protein digestibility is a result of both external and internal factors. Examples of external factors are physical inaccessibility due to entrapment in e.g., intact cell structures and the presence of antinutritional factors. The main internal factors are the amino acid sequence of the proteins and protein folding and crosslinking. Processing of food is generally designed to increase the overall digestibility through affecting these external and internal factors. However, with proteins, processing may eventually also lead to a decrease in digestibility. In this review, protein digestion and digestibility are discussed with emphasis on the proteins of (pseudo)cereals.

【 授权许可】

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