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Hydration behaviour of food grains and modelling their moisture pick up as per Peleg’s equation: Part I. Cereals

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Cereals and millets generally hydrate at a moderate rate and their hydration behaviour differs in native and in processed state. The study was on the hydration of paddy, milled rice, parboiled rice, wheat, millets and equilibrium moisture content (EMC) on soaking at room temperature. Paddy hydrated very slowly, hydration rate was slow in brown rice but fast in milled rice and highest in waxy rice. In most of the rice varieties, maximum absorption occurred at the end of 30 min. In wheat hydration rate was slow and its EMC was highest (43%). Maize grits of big size hydrated slowly compared to small grits. In coarse cereals EMC varied from 28 to 38%. Foxtail millet hydration was slow whereas that of finger millet was fast. The data were tested on the Peleg’s equation, which gave a reasonable fit to experimental data. Peleg’s constants k1 and k2 were calculated for the above grains and their hydration behaviour has been predicted. The model fitted very well to milled rice hydration data where the coefficient of variance ranged from 0.9982 to 0.9995. With exception in some millet the hydration data fitted well with the Peleg’s equation. Generalized equations have been formulated for prediction of moisture content of cereals and millets.

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  1. Department of Grain Science and Technology, Central Food Technological Research Institute, (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Mysore, 570 020, India

    Singh Vasudeva, K. N. Aswathanarayana & Y. M. Indhudhara Swamy

  2. Department of Food Engineering, Central Food Technological Research Institute, (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Mysore, 570 020, India

    K. H. Vishwanathan

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Vasudeva, S., Vishwanathan, K.H., Aswathanarayana, K.N. et al. Hydration behaviour of food grains and modelling their moisture pick up as per Peleg’s equation: Part I. Cereals. J Food Sci Technol 47, 34–41 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13197-010-0012-6

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