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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811867703321

Autore

Serna Saldivar Sergio O (Sergio Othon)

Titolo

Cereal grains : properties, processing, and nutritional attributes / / Sergio O. Serna-Saldivar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : CRC Press, , [2016]

©2010

ISBN

1-4398-9947-9

0-429-11211-4

1-4398-8209-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (796 p.)

Collana

Food Preservation Technology Series

Disciplina

641.331

Soggetti

Cereals as food

Grain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; FOOD PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGY SERIES; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; The Author; List of Tables; List of Figures; Chapter 1:  Cereal Grains; Body; Chapter 2: Physical Properties, Grading, and Specialty Grains; Chapter 3: Chemical Composition of Cereal Grains; Chapter 4: Grain Development, Morphology, and Structure; Chapter 5: Storage of Cereal Grains; Chapter 6: Grain Storage Pests; Chapter 7: Dry-Milling Operations; Chapter 8: Wet-Milling Operations; Chapter 9: Milling of Maize into Lime-Cooked Products; Chapter 10: Manufacturing of Bakery Products

Chapter 11: Manufacturing of Breakfast Cereals Chapter 12: Manufacturing of Cereal-Based Snacks; Chapter 13: Industrial Production of Modified Starches and Syrups; Chapter 14:  Production of Malts, Beers, Alcohol Spirits, and Fuel Ethanol; Chapter 15: Quality Control of Cereal Grains and Their Products; Chapter 16: Production of Cereal-Based Traditional Foods; Chapter 17: Role of Cereals in Human Nutrition and Health; Chapter 18: Cereals as Feed stuffs for Animal Nutrition; Glossary; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

While cereals remain the world’s largest food yield – with more than 2.3



billion metric tons produced annually – consumer demands are on the rise for healthier cereal products with greater nutrition. Cereal Grains: Properties, Processing, and Nutritional Attributes provides a complete exploration of the scientific principles related to domestication, morphology, production, and storage of cereal grains. It also describes their physical and chemical characteristics and explains how these properties relate to industrial processing and nutritional value.