FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2005, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (9): 615-618.

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Function and Extraction of Health Factors in Wheat Germ

 WU  Ding, LIU  Chang-Jin, LIU  Chang-Peng, JU  Xing-Rong, YAO  Ming-Lan   

  1. 1.Department of Food Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics;2.Department of Food Science, Tianjin University of Science and Technology
  • Online:2005-09-15 Published:2011-09-20

Abstract: The wheat germ contain some factors of health function such as the wheat germ oil, vitamin E, glutathione , flavonoid and wheat germ agglutinate. The paper introduced simple the biological function of main health factors in wheat germ such as antioxidant effect, anticancer, the decreased cholesterol in bleed of men’s body, the prophylaxis disease of heart and bleed vessel. The paper discussed the methods of the extraction and pure for most health factors in the wheat germ.

Key words: health factors, wheat germ, function, extraction