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CEREAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 77, Issue 2, Pages 237-240Publisher
AMER ASSOC CEREAL CHEMISTS
DOI: 10.1094/CCHEM.2000.77.2.237
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Okara is the residue left after soymilk or tofu production. In North America, okara is used either as animal feed, fertilizer, or landfill. The purpose of this study was to use wet okara to produce and enrich extruded cereal products and to study the effects of extrusion on the dietary fiber and isoflavone contents. Wet okara was combined with soft wheat flour to produce two different formulations (33.3 and 40% okara) and extruded using four combinations of two screw configurations and two temperature profiles. Various physicochemical properties, dietary fiber by enzymatic-gravimetric method, and isoflavone content by HPLC were analyzed. The radial expansion ratio decreased as fiber content increased. On the other hand, both bulk density and breaking strength increased as fiber content increased. Combining okara with soft wheat flour resulted in increased protein, dietary fiber, and isoflavone contents compared with soft wheat flour alone. Extrusion of the formulations resulted in decreased insoluble fiber (less than or equal to 25.5%) and increased soluble fiber (less than or equal to 150%) contents of extrudates. Extrusion decreased the total detectable isoflavones (less than or equal to 20%) and altered the distribution of the six detected isoflavones.
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