Method of preparing highly dispersible whole grain flour with an increased avenanthramide content
AssigneeThe Quaker Oats Company
InventorsGary Carder, Robert E. Chatel, YiFang Chu, Yongsoo Chung, Justin A. French, Marianne O'Shea, Bernadus Jan-Willem Van Klinken
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Abstract
A method of preparing a highly dispersible whole grain oat flour by hydrolyzing, milling and agglomerating grain flour to arrive at a whole grain oat flour having an increased avenanthramide content compared to native oat flour.
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A highly dispersible whole grain oat flour containing about 20-35% more avenanthramides compared to native whole oat flour and wherein the whole grain oat flour is agglomerated following hydrolysis, pelletizing and milling.
A highly dispersible whole grain oat flour produced using the following process:
- a. combining a native whole grain oat flour starting mixture with an aqueous enzyme solution to form an enzyme starting mixture having a moisture content of 25 to 40 wt %;
- b. heating the enzyme starting mixture;
- c. adding the heated starting mixture to an extruder and extruding the mixture until the temperature of the mixture increases to about 260° F. to 300° F. wherein the enzyme is deactivated;
- d. pelletizing the extruded flour;
- e. drying the pelletized extruded flour;
- f. milling the pelletized extruded flour to a particle size of about 50-420 microns;
- g. agglomerating the milled extruded flour to a particle size of about 150-1000 microns
- wherein the highly dispersible whole grain oat flour contains at least 20% higher level of avenanthramides compared to native whole oat flour.
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