United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

King Saud University

Abdellatif Abdelhakim Mohamed

Rogers E Harry-O'kuru

Mohamed Saleh Alamri

Jingyuan Xu

Shahzad Hussain Fazal Dad

Akram Ahmed Qasem

Sherald H Gordon

Mohamed Abdrabo Ibraheem

Infant cereals play a significant role in the complementary baby feeding period. Provided is a preparation method for infant cereal, with a special focus on whole grain infant cereals as well as gluten free cereals. There is mounting evidence of many benefits of whole grain consumption for human health. Similarly, consumers often link the term whole grains to healthiness, which becomes a more important factor when selecting an infant cereal brand. Whole grain cereals ought to be presented as early as possible during infancy. Nonetheless, the greatest challenge that food manufacturers are facing is to drive consumers' acceptance, including taste. The complementary infant feeding is unquestionably key in shaping food preferences of infants. Therefore, it is a suitable period in life at which to introduce whole grain cereals for acceptance across the entire lifetime.

Grain-based infant cereal and method of making same

Disclosed is a bio-based and environmentally friendly elastomer product from renewable agricultural substrates. Specifically, glutamine and arginine residues of gliadin are used as synthons to produce novel elastomeric product from the reaction of the oxirane groups of epoxidized vegetable oils under neat reaction conditions with the primary amide functionalities of glutamine and arginine to give the corresponding amidohyroxy gliadinyl triglycerides.

Elastomer product from epoxidized vegetable oil and gliadin

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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Abdellatif Abdelhakim Mohamed