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DENATURED WHEAT [2 records]

Record 1 2010-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grain Growing
DEF

[A] wheat [that] has been denatured so as to render it unfit for human consumption.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des céréales
DEF

[...] blé rendu impropre à la consommation humaine et racheté par l'État.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cultivo de cereales
DEF

Trigo que ha sido desnaturalizado de modo que es impropio para el consumo humano.

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Record 2 1993-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
CONT

By more complete removal of the starch, products containing 75 and 85 percent protein are produced. When used in foods, the product is called "vital protein". When prepared for use in adhesive and other industrial products, it is made under less exacting conditions and called "denatured gluten". From Wheat to Flour, Wheat flour Institute, Chicago, 1966, p. 7.

OBS

Denature: To change the properties of a protein as to coagulate egg white.

Key term(s)
  • vital protein

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation

Spanish

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