Quality and Composition Assessment of Wheat and Its Products
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Grain".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2021) | Viewed by 30619
Special Issue Editor
Interests: FTIR; NIR; agricultural product quality; food matrice characterization
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Dear Colleagues,
With a global production of 730.5 million tonnes in 2018, wheat is the third most-produced cereal globally after rice and maize and the most important crop both in terms of acreage and yield in the EU. About 65% of the produced wheat is used for human nutrition. The reason for the large-scale cultivation of wheat is based on the adaptability of wheat to a wide range of environmental conditions and its high yield potential and long-term storage capacity. Furthermore, wheat grains can be ground into flour, semolina, etc., which form the basic ingredients for great diversity of products (bread, pasta, noodles, cookies and other food products...), and making it the primary carbohydrate and protein source for the world's population.
In this general context, and even if wheat quality is a very wide subject that will be defined differently by the different stakeholders of the wheat chain (farmers, millers, food manufacturers, and consumers), general improvement of wheat quality constitute a major issue for these next decades. To do this, we have to more achieve an understanding of what constitutes end-use quality of wheat (i.e. technological quality, nutritional quality, human health benefits), how to evaluate the key factors of quality (wheat grain constituants), and where variation in quality originates (i.e. genetic source , environmental source, processing source).
This Special Issue aims to include research from all different disciplines of cereal science, considering genetic, agronomic, chemical, technological, and nutritional properties of wheat and wheat products, as well as their interactions with human health.
Dr. Thierry Aussenac
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Wheat grain composition
- Wheat grain breeding
- Genetic and environmental effects on wheat grain composition
- Bread making
- Biscuit, cake, noodles, pasta products
- Nutritional quality of wheat and wheat products
- Health benefits of wheat and wheat products