Semolina flour is made from
the milled endosperm of durum wheat.
Not exact matches
The «whole wheat bread» isn't 100 % whole wheat, but
milled and separated so that the
endosperm is all that remains... pure sugar, so to speak... nothing nutritionally, empty calories.
Summary:
Endosperm, the remaining edible part of rice grains after it is
milled, lacks several essential nutrients such as provitamin A. Thus, predominant rice consumption promotes vitamin A deficiency — a serious public health problem in at least 26 countries including highly populated areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Small - scale
millers will often grind the seed head whole, but large, commercial
millers frequently separate the portions and then add the bran and germ back in to the
endosperm for «Frankensteined» whole wheat flour.
This is useful in recipes calling for white AP flour, but
milled whole grains from these producers are often Frankensteined by separating the
endosperm from the bran and germ, then combining them back together.
Many large - scale
milling companies use steel
mills to extract the
endosperm from the rest of the seed head.
The bran and germ have been removed, leaving only the unbleached, unbromated
endosperm milled into this all - purpose flour.
«During the
milling process, the bran and the germ, which contain valuable nutrients, are removed, leaving the
endosperm,» explains Judith Finlayson, author of The Complete Whole Grains Cookbook.
Our modern wheat is separated (so the
endosperm remains and the germ and rich bran are discarded),
milled, bleached, «enriched,» sifted, mixed, fermented, divided, molded, baked, sliced, preserved, and packaged.
The
endosperm is the largest part of the kernel, with 83 percent of its total mass; in wheat, this is the part of the grain that, once the bran and germ have been removed, is
milled into white flour.
A wheat kernel consists of the outside shell (wheat bran), the starchy
endosperm (used to
mill flour), and the wheat germ (the reproductive element).
Guar gum is produced by the
milling of the
endosperm of the guar seed.
Preceding the Industrial Revolution, all cereals were ground with the use of stone
milling tools, and unless the flour was sieved, it contained the entire contents of the cereal grain, including the germ, bran, and
endosperm (35).
The AAFCO definition of corn gluten meal is «The dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet
milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the
endosperm.»