GGR287H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sugar Beet, Redpath Sugar Refinery, Preservative
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Other grain cereals: barley, sorghum, millet, rye, oats, triticale fonio, teff. Pseudocereals: buckwheat, quinoa, amaranth, kaniwa, pulses, roots, tubers & oilseeds. Root crops: plant roots used as vegetables (carrot, beets, radish & horseradish, turnips & rutabagas) Basic facts - oil seeds: lipid materials derived from plants (liquid at room temperature, uses: shortening, texture, flavor & flavor base, animal feed & pet food, industrial uses (soap, candles, cosmetics, fuel, etc. ) Basic facts - soybeans: today used mostly: cattle feed, industrial uses. Nearly all soybeans processed for: oil, cooking & other edible uses, biodiseal or industrial uses, soybean meal, high protein fibre ~ animal feed (needs to be roasted and/or processed) 2% of soybean meal further processed into soy flours and proteins for human food use: ~ 6% soybeans used directly as human food (mostly asia) dwarf and semi-dwarf apple trees: higher yields (much) better quality (much) easier to pick.
