Abstract:
Food industry plays important role in economy of a country .Because food industry produces food for the whole country by the utilization or processing of agriculture raw material. With the passage of time trends in food industry changes. Now in this era food industry works on the functional foods like food fortification in juices, milk, yoghurt, margarine, cereal and buckwheat etc. Recently buckwheat as a pseudo cereal gets more attention in baking industry due to its enormous functional food properties. Buckwheat is a type of wheat typically known as Baro in Pakistan, having short period of growing. It possess high level of protein (except glutein), carbohydrates, lipids, minerals (zinc, magnesium), dietary fiber, flavonoids, phytosterols, rutin (secondary metabolite). Different products are produced from buckwheat such as bread, biscuits, pastry, breakfast cereals, snacks, noodles, vermicelli, tea, sprouts, honey and vinegar as well. Buckwheat has very important health promoting effects like anticancer effect, antiinflammatory, antiatherogenic, antioxidant properties, antihypertensive effect, lowering of bad cholesterol, lowering of blood glucose, also improve constipation and obesity. It is mostly consumed due to absence of gluten and more gluten free products are produced. In future more healthy products are produced like bread, pasta, snacks, and biscuits etc., that are low in calories and also in cholesterol. More researches are performed and its functional food properties are utilize in neutraceutical and supplements are produced.
Page(s):
55-55
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Abstract Book on International Conference on Life Sciences (ICLS-23) 11-12 May 22-23, Volume: 0, Issue: 0, Year: 2023
Keywords:
buckwheat
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health effects
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food industry
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Products
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Future