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The effect of wet and dry milling on the functional properties of whole sorghum grain flour (SF) and extracted kafirin were assessed. White sorghum landrace was used to prepare two SFs by wet milling (SF1) or dry milling (SF2) and to extract their respective kafirins SK1 and SK2. Protein contents of SK1 and SK2 were 90.07 and 94.23%. Wet milling of SF allowed increasing the oil binding capacity, the least gelling concentration and the instant foam capacity and decreasing the water binding capacity and foam stability. The emulsifying activity index of SF1 and SF2 were in the same range, while emulsion stability was two time higher in SF2. Functional properties of SK1 and SK2 showed an appropriate water binding capacity of 2.20 ± 0.10 and 1.82 ± 0.22 (g water/g dry mater), respectively. Both SK1 and SK2 showed higher oil binding capacity than SF1 and SF2 with no gel and foam formation. The wet milling improved water and oil binding capacities of SK1 by 17 and 5%. The emulsifying activity indexes were approximately similar for SK1 and SK2 with emulsion stability exceeding 60%. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of SK1 and SK2 showed that wet milling induced a decrease of α-helical structure and an increase of intermolecular β-sheet and β-turns and no change in the anti parallel β-sheet. This study showed that wet milling could allow extracting kafirin with preserving the most important functional properties of SF and kafirin and could constitute an interesting method for protein recovery and starch isolation.
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Ms. Manal Chillali and Ms. Mounia Chami are deeply knowledged for their contribution in some experimental parts in this work. Ms. Neila Benhabiles is knowledged for her contribution in the FTIR analysis.
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Amoura, H., Mokrane, H. & Nadjemi, B. Effect of wet and dry milling on the functional properties of whole sorghum grain flour and kafirin. J Food Sci Technol 57, 1100–1109 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13197-019-04145-2
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