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m THE BATTALION Page 11 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1978 || Don’t try to wear it ‘otton’s now edible By GLENNA WHITLEY Battalion StafT /hat looks like sunflower seeds, lies like peanuts, and grows from rtonseed? TAMUnuts, brought to you by ur local Oilseed Products Re- Jrch Center at Texas A&M Uni- sity. lamunuts are defatted glandless [tonseed that have been roasted, sted or fried. They can be eaten [macks or used in candies, cookies ' other bakery items. There is en tamunutbutter. Tamunuts are not the only foods duced from cottonseed. A recipe ok printed by the oilseed lab at Ixas A&M using the products they llped develop, gives ways to use Tttonseed cooking oil, flour, tex- red meat extender, whipped top- ng and a high protein beverage. j>e book lists such favorites as locolate chip cookies, meat loaf, jjdding, Waikiki appetizers and ilian meatballs. Sin all these recipes, flour or tex- jired meat extender either takes the place of or supplements the ingredient. JjfCottonseed has long been studied a possible source for low-cost, gh-protein foods. Cottonseed &ur has more than five times the otein value in wheat flour. |The presence of pigment glands ^i| ordinary glandless cottonseed has i a deterrent to its use in human i)ds in the past. These tiny glands store gossypol, which if not re moved is poisonous to humans. Glandless cottonseed, (without gossypol) was developed by crossing different strains of cotton plants. Consequently, cottonseed can now be seriously considered as a major food possibility. There are a few problems, how ever, with using cottonseed prod ucts. Cottonseed flour properties are very different from those of wheat flour, which allows it to ex pand as in the case of bread. There fore, the flour cannot be used as a 100 percent replacement in breads without a significant loss in volume. But cottonseed flour is 60-70 per cent protein, while wheat flour is only 10-15 percent protein. By re placing 25 percent of the wheat flour in a chocolate chip cookie, the pro tein content of the cookie is dou bled. In addition to better nutrition through the addition of protein, cot tonseed flour offers many positive factors such as longer shelf life and less fat absorption in products such as doughnuts. Cottonseed flour can also be tex turized to make a product that can be blended with ground beef to ex tend a meat product. It will not alter the total protein content, yet it costs only about one-fourth as much and will reduce the fat loss in a recipe by 10 percent. eat to enra| a sen | egatii hat oi iinar,l LI OPEN 10 *'7 “’"'Parv Beef blood plasma useful protein additive in baking by JOHNNIE HENDON Discarded in the past, beef blood can now be turned into a useful by product of cattle slaughtering. Three Texas A&M researchers are collaborating to use plasma pro tein isolate in food products such as bread and cake. Dr. Mir Khan, has been working since 1975 on the project along with Dr. Lloyd Rooney of the Cereal Quality Lab. Dr. C. W. Dill provides the neces sary plasma protein from the animal science department. “We don’t like to use the term blood protein’ because of aesthe tics, Kahn said. “When people hear the word blood, they think red. Plasma protein isolate is a white powder which doesn’t add any color ing to foods.’ It does however, add valuable nu trients to the foods to which it is added, Khan said. He said it is 99 percent protein and contains all the essential amino acids needed by humans. Khan first used the plasma pro tein isolate as a substitute for the usual wheat flour in bread. He sub stituted as much as 10 percent and got good loaves of bread, with no Lawrence’s Hair Styling Salon, We cut hair like i porcupines make love Dr. Mir Khan, A&M researcher, slices a piece of bread made with beef blood plasma. Breads are just one of the foods that can be enriched with protein from the plasma. Very carefully! 822-1183 301 Bizzell problems in the baking process. He added that with more than four percent substitution, there were problems with taste. Khan is now substituting plasma protein isolate for egg whites in angel food cake because it has the same foaming properties. “We can substitute as much as 30 percent in the cakes with no flavor problems,’ Khan said, probably be cause of the other strong flavorings added to the cakes. The cost of dry solid egg whites is $2.80 per pound, while the plasma is about $1.50 per pound. Khan hopes the lower cost and high pro tein will help the market potential of the plasma. He noted that companies such as Embrey’s Jewelry We Specialize In Aggie Rings. 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