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Wheat - An Exceptional Crop. Botanical Features, Chemistry, Utilization, Nutritional and Health Aspects

  • Book

  • June 2020
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 5007937
Wheat - An Exceptional Crop: Botanical Features, Chemistry, Utilization, Nutritional and Health Aspects presents the exceptional position of wheat among food crops. The book demonstrates the benefits and drawbacks of wheat from a wheat science, nutrition and technology perspective. Organized into 13 chapters, chapters 1 - 3 present a basic overview of wheat; chapters 4 - 6 explore the overall benefits of wheat for the general population, and chapters 7 - 13 assess wheat-related disorders that affect a small portion of the population.

Wheat - An Exceptional Crop: Botanical Features, Chemistry, Utilization, Nutritional and Health Aspects is an exceptional reference for those working in and researching the fields of agronomy, food chemistry, food technology, nutrition, allergology and gastroenterology.

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Table of Contents

1. Botanical Features of Wheat2. Chemical Composition of Wheat Grains 3. Cultivation and Milling of Wheat 4. Wheat-Based Food and Feed5. Wheat-Based Raw Materials6. Nutritional Value of Wheat7. Principles of Wheat Hypersensitivities8. Celiac Disease9. Wheat Allergy10. Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity11. Irritable Bowel Syndrome12. Treatment of Dietary Wheat Hypersensitivities13. Future Research on Wheat Hypersensitivities

Authors

Herbert Wieser Deutsche Forschungsanstalt f�r Lebensmittelchemie, Leibniz Institut. Peter Koehler Deutsche Forschungsanstalt f�r Lebensmittelchemie, Leibniz Institut. Peter Koehler is currently chairman of the Working Group on Prolamin Analysis and Toxicity and scientific advisor of the German Celiac Society. His research on celiac disease is focused on gluten analysis and gluten detoxification by means of enzymes. Katharina A. Scherf Institute of Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany. Katharina A. Scherf leads the Department of Bioactive and Functional Food Chemistry at the Institute of Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. Having studied food chemistry, she obtained her PhD degree from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and was a research group leader at the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the TUM. She was awarded with several scientific prizes including the Young Scientist Research Award of the Cereals & Grains Association in 2018 and the Research Award of the German Coeliac Society in 2014 and 2019.