PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF FOUR IMPORTED WHEAT TO EGYPT | ||||
| Sinai Journal of Applied Sciences | ||||
| Article 4, Volume 7, Issue 1, April 2018, Page 47-58 PDF (607.28 K) | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/sinjas.2018.78869 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Ayman H. El-Naggar  1; Mohamed A.S. Abdel-Samie 2; Samir I. Ghoneim2
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| 1Agric. Quaran., Min. Agric., Egypt. | ||||
| 2Dept. Technol. Food and Dairy, Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops in Egypt. It is consumed at a high level to feed the Egyptian individual because it is relatively cheap compared to other carbohydrate sources. The domestic production of wheat is still insufficient to meet the consumer needs, which increased the food gap of wheat. The overall objective of the present study was to compare and evaluate the wheat of different origins imported to Egypt, and to check the safety of that wheat's to be consumed in Egypt. In this study wheat samples imported from four origin countries including France, Romania, Russia and Ukraine, within five importing intervals including (July-August/2014), (September-October/2014), (November-December/ 2014), (January-February/2015) and the (March-April/2015), used to evaluate imported wheat to Egypt by several tests like moisture content, test weight, falling number, protein content, shrunken and broken grains and insect damaged kernels.. In general the Ukrainian wheat was the beast among all other wheat originated from France, Romania and Russia, Ukrainian wheat came in the first place in three tests i.e. moisture content, that ranged from 10.88% to 12.43% with an average of 11.46%., test weight, ranged from 78.77 to 80.57 kg hl-1 with an average of 79.70 kg hl-1 and falling number, ranged from 322.0 to 412.0 sec with an average of 360.47 sec., and came in the second order in other tests as, protein content, which ranged from 12.21 to 13.67% with an average 12.80%, shrunken and broken grains ranged from 0.746 to 1.925% with an average of 1.115%. Ukrainian wheat came in the third order in one test like, insect damaged kernels, which ranged from 0.651 to 0.883% with an average of 0.761%. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Wheat; Chemical and Physical properties; test weight; shrunken and broken grains; insect damaged kernels; moisture content; falling number; and protein content | ||||
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