Effects of germination on chemical composition of hull-less spring cereals
2016
Senhofa, S., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia) | Kince, T., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia) | Galoburda, R., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia) | Cinkmanis, I., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia) | Sabovics, M., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia) | Sturite, I., Norwegian Inst. for Agricultural and Environmental Research (Bioforsk), Tjøtta (Norway)
The objective of the current research was to investigate effects of germination on chemical composition of hull-less barley (Hordeum vulgare L. var. nudum Hook. f.), hull-less oat (Avena sativa), rye (Secale spp.), and wheat (Triticum spp.) grains for comparison. All the grains were cleaned, washed, steeped and germinated at temperature 35 ± 2 °C and relative humidity 95 ± 2% for 12, 24, 36, and 48 hours. After germination grains were dried till moisture content 14 ± 2%. Main quality parameters such as starch, proteins, b-glucan (in hull-less barley) and individual sugars were determined in cereals during their steeping and germination. Non-germinated grains were used as a control sample. In the present experiments non-significant protein content increase was observed in the analysed hull-less barley, hull-less oat, rye, and wheat during their germination for 48 hours. Starch content in hull-less barley, wheat and rye grains decreased non-significantly during germination for 24 h; opposite results were obtained for hull-less oat grains, where content of starch decreased by 16.7% after steeping and by 26.4% after germination for 24 h. b-glucan content in hull-less barley grains after germination for 48 h decreased by 20.5%. Non-significant changes were obtained in fructose content in analysed cereal grains during germination for 48 h; it was significantly increased after germination for 24 h and in germination for 48 h. Non-significant sucrose content changes were observed in hull-less barley, rye and wheat grains during germination for 12 h and in hull-less oat grains – for 24 h significantly increasing in future germination for 48 h.
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