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- Title
TRADITIONAL ALGERIAN FERMENTED FOOD: FIRST DATA ON NUTRITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WHEAT (TRITICUM DURUM) FERMENTED IN UNDERGROUND SILOS MATMOR (MASCARA, ALGERIA) COMPARED TO UNFERMENTED WHEAT.
- Authors
Sara, Mokhtari; Mouna, Taghouti; Djamel, Saidi; Omar, Kheroua
- Abstract
Wheat grain is a staple food that contains numerous compounds beneficial to nutrition and health. Fermentation is of importance to improving the nutritional attributes of cereal grains for human consumption. With the aim of identifying the influence of the fermentation by the traditional storage “Matmora” during 9 years, on the biochemical components of the wheat, we tried to make a comparative study between the properties of both samples of durum wheat fermented wheat “El-Hammoum”, unfermented wheat and to estimate their nutritional values and to find that the fermented durum wheat possesses antihyperglycemic activity and a less allergenic effect and which would be recommended for the people having an allergy and/or intolerance of the gluten. Fermented wheat “El-Hammoum”, an Algerian food contains a considerable amount of water, proteins, is a good source of lipids, fiber, mineral content and polyphenols, and low content of pH, test Weight, Falling Number, and gluten. Moreover, the results of the electrophoresis on SDS-PAGE gel, showed a total degradation of proteins gliadins and gluténins after sequential extraction of every protein. The decrease in gliadin, gluten protein fraction, implicated in celiac disease, would be beneficial for these patients. Also good for health; it is used as a remedy by diabetics because showed good in vitro antihyperglycemic activity; because has low contents of total sugars and starch linked to its fermentation. These findings also provide evidence that “El-Hammoum” may be useful for the treatment of complications associated with Diabetes and raise the possibility of a new application as a complementary therapy associated with hypoglycaemic drugs. In conclusion, fermentation of cereals in underground silos “Matmora” can be a way to produce food grains enriched with health promoting compounds and enhanced functional attributes.
- Subjects
FIRST Data Corp.; FERMENTED foods; GRAIN; WHEAT; GLUTELINS; ENZYMES; ENRICHED foods; DURUM wheat; CEREALS as food
- Publication
Advances in Biology & Earth Sciences, 2020, Vol 5, Issue 3, p176
- ISSN
2520-2847
- Publication type
Article