Wheat Science: Nutritional and Anti-Nutritional Properties, Processing, Storage, Bioactivity, and Product Development

Globally, significant work has been done to enhance our current understanding of the nutritional and antinutritional properties, processing, storage, bioactivity, and product development of wheat, opening new frontiers for further improvement. Wheat Science: Nutritional and Anti-Nutritional Properties, Processing, Storage, Bioactivity, and Product Development addresses the topics associated with the advances in understanding the wheat biochemical, nutritional and rheological quality. Improving crop varieties by either conventional breeding or transgenic methods to obtain nutritionally enhanced crops has the advantage of making a one-time investment in research and development to have sustainable products.

Key Features:

- Includes topics associated with the nutritional composition and antinutritional properties

- Addresses the effects of different processing technologies on flour yield and end-products

- Reviews the effects of storage on nutritional, baking and rheological quality, organoleptic quality etc.

Processing and storage technologies have impacted the nutritional quality and the bioavailability of nutrients in wheat. Due to its peculiar grain protein composition, especially gluten protein, wheat has extensive usage in making numerous end-products eaten round the clock. Researchers have demonstrated a significant effect of alteration of flour processing technologies on the rheological quality of end-products. This book provides a holistic understanding and covers recent developments of wheat science under one umbrella. Emphasis is placed on current trends and advances in nutritional and antinutritional properties, processing, storage, bioactivity and product development. Additionally, efforts have been made to compile the available information on the application of different ingredients of wheat in the industry and pharma sectors.