The Effect of Heat Treatment of Flour on the Extractability Characteristics of Wheat Protein

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Abstract

The effect of heat treatment of wheat flourontheproteincomponentsbymonitoringchangesinproteinextractability, SDS sedimentation volume and electrophoretic patterns was investigated. In this study the moisture content of flourwasadjustedto6%andheatedinaconvectionovenat75,100or125°Cfor30mins.Theresultsshowedthatheattreatment of wheat flourat75°Chadnoeffectonthetotalamountofproteinextractability.Whenflourwasheatedat100 and 125°C the total amount of protein extractability decreased. The significanteffect(P

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