The Nutritional Value of Non-Traditional Gluten-Free Flakes and Their Antioxidant Activity
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Department of Food Analysis and Chemistry, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Vavrečkova 275, 760 01 Zlín, Czech Republic
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Department of Food Engineering, Bolu Abant Ízzet Baysal University, Gölköy Campus, 14030 Bolu, Turkey
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Antioxidants 2019, 8(11), 565; https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox8110565
Received: 22 October 2019 / Revised: 11 November 2019 / Accepted: 14 November 2019 / Published: 16 November 2019
Nowadays, there is a growing interest for foods with a lower sugar content and rich in fiber and biologically active substances. The main purpose of this study was to prepare flakes from non-traditional pigmented cereals (Oryza sativa, Chenopodium quinoa, and Eragrostis tef) and to analyze their fibre, sugar, and in vitro digestibility values. Regarding phenolic antioxidants (soluble, soluble conjugated, and insoluble bound fractions), their content and antioxidant activity were measured using spectrophotometry and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) methods. Hydrothermally treated grains resulted in flakes with higher total dietary fibre contents (11.1–24.4%), quinoa and teff flakes were rich in maltose (up to 42.0 mg/g). Non-traditional flakes had lower in vitro digestibility, but conversely, they exhibited the highest phenolic contents corresponding with the highest antioxidant activity values (up to 2.33 mg Gallic acid equivalent/g of total phenolic content and 1.59 mg Trolox equivalent/g for 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) in case of brown teff). Among free phenolics, the main contributors to an antioxidant activity were p-coumaric, o-coumaric, and gallic acids (r > 0.8186); among the soluble conjugated fractions, they were epigallocatechin, epicatechin, caffeic, and vanillic acids (r > 0.5935); while caffeic, protocatechuic, and ferulic acids (r > 0.5751) were the main contributors among the insoluble bound phenolics.
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Keywords:
antioxidant; ABTS; DPPH; Oryza sativa L.; Chenopodium quinoa Willd; Eragrostis tef L.; flake; HPLC; in vitro digestibility
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Šťastná, K.; Mrázková, M.; Sumczynski, D.; Cındık, B.; Yalçın, E. The Nutritional Value of Non-Traditional Gluten-Free Flakes and Their Antioxidant Activity. Antioxidants 2019, 8, 565. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox8110565
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Šťastná K, Mrázková M, Sumczynski D, Cındık B, Yalçın E. The Nutritional Value of Non-Traditional Gluten-Free Flakes and Their Antioxidant Activity. Antioxidants. 2019; 8(11):565. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox8110565
Chicago/Turabian StyleŠťastná, Kristýna; Mrázková, Martina; Sumczynski, Daniela; Cındık, Betül; Yalçın, Erkan. 2019. "The Nutritional Value of Non-Traditional Gluten-Free Flakes and Their Antioxidant Activity" Antioxidants 8, no. 11: 565. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox8110565
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