Cereal grain technology

Question 1

What are the three types of grains?

Answer 1

Cereals (monocot)

Oilseeds (Dicot)

Pulses (Dicot)

Question 2

What is the most widely grown Cereal in Canada

Answer 2

Wheat
Barley
oats

Question 3

What is the most widely grown Oilseed in canada?

Answer 3

Canola
soy
flank

Question 4

What is the most widely grown Pulses in canada?

Answer 4

Peas

Lentils

Question 5

Within the Kernel of a cereal grain, what are the three compartments?

Answer 5

• The Bran
• The endosperm
• The germ

Question 6

What protects the Kernel?

Answer 6

The hull/husk

Question 7

What is the Bran rich in?

Answer 7

Dietary fibers

Phyto-chemical

Question 8

How much corn is grown in canada?

Answer 8

8-9 million metric tons

Question 9

Where is the majority of the nutrients within Cereal grains?

Answer 9

The endosperm

Question 10

how do starch exist?

Answer 10

In a round, granular like format

Question 11

What surrounds the starch within the cereal endosprem?

Answer 11

The protein matrix

Question 12

What is within the Cottyledon if Oilseeds?

Answer 12

The oils of the oil seed

Question 13

Side 18, what are the patches seen in the cell

Answer 13

The oil dropplets.

Question 14

Aleurone layer

Answer 14

One cell layers that presents a rounded endosperm layer that has the ability to secrete enzymes within cereal grains.

Question 15

The germ will do what to trigger root growth?

Answer 15

Hormones from the germ will go into the Aleurone and begin triggering the endosperm to break down starch into smaller sugars to be used to make roots.

Question 16

Is there a Aleurone layer within oil seeds?

Answer 16

No

The aleuorne grains within these grains are just storage units

Question 17

What is the highest starch containing cereal?

Answer 17

corn

Question 18

Beta-Glucan

Answer 18

One of the soluable fibers that is very important for heart health.

Question 19

What are the two major cereal grains that contain beta-glucan?

Answer 19

Barley and Oats

Question 20

Soy beans are not Pulses due too….

Answer 20

The fact that they have too much oil and too little starch to be considered pulses.

Question 21

Why are pulses so important?

Answer 21

Pulses are part of a healthy, balanced diet
and have been shown to have an
important role in preventing illnesses such
as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

Question 22

Why are pulses so important?

Answer 22

Pulses are part of a healthy, balanced diet
and have been shown to have an
important role in preventing illnesses such
as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

Question 23

Starch is a Bio_____

Answer 23

polymer

Question 24

Amylose

Answer 24

One of the leanest starch molecules

Question 25

Amylopactin

Answer 25

polymer of glucose

thus is branched

Question 26

Starch

Answer 26

Can be Amylose or Amylopactin

Question 27

Glyco means…

Answer 27

Carbohydrates

Question 28

Glyco means…

Answer 28

Carbohydrates