Abstract
Industrial sunflower and rapeseed meals cannot be directly used as a food because of their high fiber content and because of the presence of some undesirable constituents (such as hulls, polyphenolic pigments, etc.) or precursors of toxic compounds (glucosinolates, etc.). Edible protein products (flours, concentrates, and isolates) from these two sources can be obtained by carrying out, to various degrees, and with different procedures, extraction operations of non-proteic and potentially toxic or antinutritional components. All the possible combinations of the single extraction operations (removal of fiber, lipids, polysaccharides, etc.) were studied by various authors in order to develop an optimum process both from the economic and the product quality points of view.
In this report the problems related to the individual extraction operations, rather than to individual processes, are reviewed for reasons of recapitulation and to provide a common basis for comparison. Although it is impossible to reach a definitive conclusion it appears that some of the processes reviewed are able to produce very attractive raw materials for food manufacturing industries. Nevertheless, no food grade sunflower or rapeseed proteins have appeared on the market to date. However, sunflower and rapeseed protein sources will have to be taken into account in the near future as an added promising means for attacking food shortage problems.
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Tranchino, L., Costantino, R. & Sodini, G. Food grade oilseed protein processing: sunflower and rapeseed. Plant Food Hum Nutr 32, 305–334 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01091192
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