Potential for beta-glucan enrichment in brans derived from oat (Avena sativa L.) cultivars of different (1 leads to 3),(1 leads to 4)-beta-D-glucan concentrations.

P. J. Wood, J. Weisz, P. Fedec

Europe PMC (PubMed Central) · 1991 · 57 citations · 0 references

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This paper describes a simple, small-scale milling process to produce coarse and fine fractions from a selection of oat cultivars and reports their concentrations of β-glucan and starch