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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Milho e Sorgo.
Data corrente: | 20/11/1997
Data da última atualização: | 12/06/2018
Autoria: | SCHAFFERT, R. E.
Afiliação: | ROBERT EUGENE SCHAFFERT, CNPMS.
Título: | The use of sorghum for food in Brazil.
Ano de publicação: | 1992
Fonte/Imprenta: | In: GOMEZ, M. I.; HOUSE, L. R.; ROONEY, L. W.; DENDY, D. A. V. Utilization of sorghum and millets. Patancheru: ICRISAT, 1992. p. 95-97.
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | The potential demand for composite flours in Brazil is great because the consumption of wheat is greater than production. The low cost of imported wheat after the Second World War contributed to a change in the eating habits of Brazilians, substituting many traditional foods for products made with wheat flour. Since 1976 the Government has spent approximately US$1 billion annually on importing and subsidizing the consumption of wheat. EMBRAPA has developed technologies for the preparation and use of several composite flours, including the production and use of a composite sorghum flour. Many products have been made, tested and accepted in various regions of Brazil. A composite flour made from sorghum is superior to that of maize for some products, because maize flour alters the color and taste of the end product and sorghum flour does not. The use of composite flour is Brazil is technically viable, but it has not been economically viable because subsdized wheat flour costs less. In 1987 the subsidy of wheat was removed, and this triggered the use of several composite flours. There appears to be a demand for sorghum for human consumption in the semi-arid Northeast of Brazil. The national Maize and Sorghum Research Center of EMBRAPA is currently developing new white, vitreous-seeded sorghum cultivars suitable for human consumption.
Palavras-Chave: | Brasil; Humana nutrition.
Thesagro: | Nutrição Humana; Sorghum Bicolor; Sorgo.
Thesaurus Nal: | Brazil.
Categoria do assunto: | F Plantas e Produtos de Origem Vegetal
Registro original: | Embrapa Milho e Sorgo (CNPMS)
Exemplares: | CNPMS - (5973-1) - UPC - PL - DD -  -  -  - DIS