Phytate degradation in composite wheat/cassava/sorghum bread: Effects of preincubation of Pichia kudriavzevii TY13 and presence of yeast extract.
Journal article, 2022

Diet based on whole cereal flours is associated with a high prevalence of iron deficiency anemia and zinc deficiency in low/middle-income countries. Such flours contain high content of phytate that chelates minerals such as iron and zinc, making them unavailable for absorption by humans. To improve the mineral absorption, a phytate:iron molar ratio <1 and a phytate:zinc molar ratio <5 is needed to be achieved. This study aimed to improve the phytate degradation in composite wheatcassava-whole sorghum flour bread by adding a phytase releasing yeast Pichia kudriavzevii TY13 in baking, preincubated or not, with addition of yeast extract. The phytate and mineral contents were measured by high-performance ion chromatography. Addition of P. kudriavzevii TY13 to the composite flour dough and fermentation for 2 h at room temperature resulted in a 98% phytate degradation.
However, the same phytate reduction in the composite bread was achieved after 1 h fermentation at room temperature with addition of preincubated P. kudriavzevii TY13 plus yeast extract. Increasing the fermentation temperature to 30°C, the phytate content was equally low after fermentation for 1 h with P. kudriavzevii TY13 (preincubated or not) plus yeast extract. In conclusion, a faster reduction of phytate in composite bread was obtained by increasing the fermentation temperature, and addition of P. kudriavzevii TY13 (preincubated or not) with added yeast extract. The phytate to iron molar ratio was
then 0.2 and the phytate to zinc molar ratio 0.6, which strongly indicates an improved bioavailability of both minerals from such a bread.

wheat flour

cassava flour

phytase

bread making.

sorghum flour

Phytate

Pichia kudriavzevii TY13

yeast extract

Author

Serafina Vilanculos

Chalmers, Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science

Ulf Svanberg

Chalmers, Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science

Thomas Andlid

Undergraduate Education Physics, Chemistry and Biological Engineering along with Mathematics and Engineering Preparatory Year

African Journal of Food Science

1996-0794 (ISSN)

Vol. 16 12 310-318 F20421169986

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Food Science

Areas of Advance

Health Engineering

DOI

10.5897/AJFS2022.2229

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10/25/2023