Nutritional and Health Impact of Cereal Phytate

Nutritional and Health impact of cereal phytate This book is designed to serve as a textbook for Research Scholar, Scientist, Teacher and students. This book seeks to impart a complete understanding of the fundamental concepts regarding phytic acid in cereal food. Dietary phytate performs favorable health effects, such as defense against a variety of cancer and heart-related diseases, diabetes mellitus and kidney stones Apart from antinutrient. On the one hand, the chelating capacity of phytate is measured to be a harm to one’s health whilst, on the other hand, researchers consider this capability to bind with minerals as its most dominant asset. Such a variant topic signifies that more intensive studies are needed to obtain better insight into the mechanism answerable for the ‘‘friend or foe” dispute of phytate. Apart phytic acid wheat grain comprise gluten peptides that cause of Celiac disease in human being. Key Features •Provides a complete negative and positive overview of wheat Phytic acid •Mineral bioavailability and phytic acid •Development of low phytic acid mutants in rice •Inositol hexaphosphate: an anticancerous agent •Gluten peptides and Celiac disease