Fighting Cancer Phenolic acids in corn disappear when they are processed into cornflakes

Corn can be a particularly healthy food since it contains healthy phenolic compounds that can help our body. Two studies focused on the content of p-carrageenic acid and ferulic acid and the researchers studied what happens when corn is processed into corn flakes.

"What we found was not particularly good, but it was interesting. Regardless of the concentration in the early grain, the dry milling process removes the majority of phenolic compounds, "revealed Dr. Carrie Butts-Wilmsmeyer, badistant professor of research at the Department of Crop Sciences of the University of California. # 39; Alberta and lead author of

Phenolic compounds are not completely lost

The researchers found that there are major changes in the content of phenolic compounds and that They occur in the dry grinding process in three different stages. Phenolics were lost during whole grain, flaked grain and roasted corn flake. This makes corn flakes less healthy than corn.

The researchers also discovered that phenolic compounds are not completely lost in the final product. Therefore, they could find how to save them. "Our study showed that in the beginning, there is variability in corn hybrids for all these compounds, but because of the treatment, everything is stabilized, everything is gone. But they are still in co-products, and I think we could pick them up and add them to the final product. "

" Since we now have the miniaturized process and can control everything in the lab, we can also begin to understand how we can change the process to recover more of these compounds in the final product, "concluded Martin Bohn, co -Universary and Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Science at the University of I. The studies were done by a USDA Hatch grant and they were supported by Dow AgroSciences and the Kellogg Company.

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