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Article Number | D104 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Dossier: Rapeseed – Tremendous potential for added value generation? / Colza : haut potentiel de valeur ajoutée ? | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2013038 | |
Published online | 22 January 2014 |
Research Article
Rapeseed proteins – Production methods and possible application ranges
Protéines de colza : méthodes de production et champs d’application potentiels
Department of Process Engineering, Fraunhofer Institute for
Process Engineering and Packaging, Giggenhauser Str. 35, 85354
Freising,
Germany
* Correspondence:
Daniela.von.der.haar@ivv.fraunhofer.de
Received:
30
August
2013
Accepted:
9
September
2013
The worldwide increasing demand in proteins for human nutrition and animal feeding leads to a growing interest in novel protein sources. Therefore, rapeseed as an established raw material for the production of edible oils could be a promising alternative, as large amounts of press cakes and residues of oil extraction are available. Integrated fractionizing processes for simultaneous oil and protein isolation using aqueous-alcoholic extraction or adsorption techniques open many opportunities for new protein ingredients from rapeseed. The present manuscript compares two strategies to identify a suitable process for achieving highly functional ingredients for the use in food applications such as sausages, bakery products or mayonnaise. One process was based on hulling of the rapeseed kernels followed by an aqueous-alcoholic-extraction of the de-oiled flour. Based on this process, protein ingredients with about 60% protein content, but only poor functional properties could be produced. The application concentration of this ingredient was limited to 2%, because of oily and strawy off-flavors. Isolates with protein contents higher than 90% and improved sensory and functional properties could be achieved with an aqueous extraction followed by adsorption of secondary plant metabolites on specific resins and an ultrafiltration of the aqueous extract. This process enables the production of protein isolates with reduced off-flavors and optimized functional profiles. In several food applications a very promising utilization potential of these ingredients could be confirmed.
Résumé
La demande mondiale croissante en protéines destinées à l’alimentation humaine et animale génère un intérêt grandissant pour les nouvelles sources de protéines. Aussi, la graine de colza, en tant que matière première utilisée de longue date pour la production d’huiles comestibles, pourrait représenter une alternative prometteuse, puisque de grandes quantités de tourteaux et de résidus d’extraction de l’huile sont disponibles. Les process de fractionnement intégré pour isoler simultanément l’huile et la protéine, utilisant l’extraction hydro-alcoolique ou des techniques d’adsorption, ouvrent de nombreuses opportunités pour des nouveaux ingrédients protéiques issus de la graine de colza. Le manuscrit présenté compare deux stratégies d’identification d’un procédé approprié permettant de réaliser des ingrédients fortement fonctionnels pour des applications alimentaires comme les saucisses, les produits de boulangerie ou la mayonnaise. Un process est basé sur le dépelliculage de graines de colza suivi par une extraction hydro-alcoolique de la farine d’huile. Avec ce procédé, des ingrédients protéinés présentant une teneur en protéines d’environ 60 %, mais des propriétés fonctionnelles réduites, pourraient être produits. La concentration d’application de cet ingrédient a été limitée à 2 %, à causes de saveurs indésirables de gras et de paille. Des isolats avec des teneurs en protéines de plus de 90 %, et des propriétés sensorielles et fonctionnelles améliorées, pourraient être réalisés avec une extraction aqueuse suivie par une adsorption des métabolites végétaux secondaires sur des résines spécifiques et une ultrafiltration de l’extrait aqueux. Ce processus permet la production d’isolats de protéines avec des saveurs indésirables réduites et des profils fonctionnels optimisés. Dans plusieurs applications alimentaires, un potentiel d’utilisation très prometteur de ces ingrédients semble se confirmer.
Key words: Food ingredients / plant protein / rapeseed / extraction / techno-functional properties
Mots clés : Ingrédient alimentaire / protéine végétale / colza / extraction / propriétés fonctionnelles et technologiques
© D. Von Der Haar et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2014
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
1 Introduction
Food producers and scientists are looking for alternative protein sources due to the increasing demand of protein foods worldwide. Besides, the scientific and economic interest for the cultivation and the processing of rapeseed is still increasing which is reflected by a 65% increase of rapeseed production from 38 mt in 2000 to 62.5 mt in 2011 (cf. FAOSTAT, http://faostat.fao.org, 2013). This underlines the importance of rapeseed as being the second leading source for vegetable oils in the world behind soybean.
Generally, rapeseed contains about 40 to 45% of oil having a high amount of unsaturated essential fatty acids. The oil content of the flours is reduced to approximately 3% by industrial de-oiling using hexane. Besides fat, de-oiled rapeseed flour consists of high amounts of proteins (35–40%), and carbohydrates (30–35%), as well as crude fibers (10–15%), minerals (5–10%) and secondary plant metabolites (up to 10%).
The most abundant constituents of the secondary plant metabolites in rapeseed are phenolic compounds including tannins, as well as glucosinolates and phytic acid. Altogether, these secondary plant metabolites are known to reduce the nutritive quality of rapeseed flours and impair their functional and sensory characteristics (Jones, 1979; Mieth et al., 1983; Harland and Morris, 1995; Shahidi et al., 1997; Porres et al., 2001). Phenolic acids and tannins constitute to approximately 50% of these compounds being located in the hulls. Phenolic compounds, for instance, cause a bitter and astringent after-taste along with a dark color of the products (Synge, 1975; Sosulski, 1979; Naczk et al., 1986), as they are able to form irreversible complexes with proteins (Mieth et al., 1983; Naczk and Shahidi, 1989). Sinapic acid and its derivatives like sinapine comprise app. 73% of the phenolic compounds present in rapeseed flour and therefore, are the most abundant phenolic compounds (Naczk and Shahidi, 1989). Phytic acid, which is mainly present as calcium, magnesium or potassium phytate, amounts to 1 to 6% in rapeseeds. Phytates can form complexes with proteins and hence, decrease protein functionality as reported by Schwenke (Schwenke, 1994). Besides, the presence of high amounts of phytate also hinders the absorption of minerals from food. Furthermore, the presence of glucosinolates in rapeseed flours has been extensively reduced by breeding of so-called double-zero varieties. The de-oiled flours of these varieties have glucosinolate concentrations below the critical value of 30 μmol/g. (Bell, 1984; Shahidi et al., 1997) However, in aqueous solutions applied during protein recovery an enzymatic hydrolysis of the glucosinolates to isothiocyanate, nitrile, and thiocyanate among others by myrosinase is possible after disintegration of the rapeseed cells. The resulting compounds interact with rapeseed proteins and reduce their nutritive value (Mieth et al., 1983; Bell, 1984; Huang, 1994).
In addition to the secondary plant metabolites, proteins are important substances present in de-oiled rapeseed flours with up to 40%. Native rapeseed proteins consist of about a total of 40 different protein fractions. However, only the three main fractions (cruciferin, napin and oleosines) are described in detail below.
Cruciferin, which amounts to app. 50% of the total protein, is a salt soluble globulin with a molecular weight of about 300 kDa. It has a sedimentation coefficient of about 12 S and its structure is comparable to other 11 S globulins like glycinin from soybeans or helianthinin from sunflower seeds. In contrast to other plant globulins, the isoelectric point of cruciferin is at neutral pH (7.25) (Schwenke et al., 1983).
Napin amounting to app. 20 to 40% of the rapeseed protein is an aqueous soluble albumin fraction consisting of 6 or 7 different sub-fractions having sedimentation coefficients of about 2 S. It possesses a molecular weight of 12–14 kDa consisting of two polypeptide chains linked with disulfide bonds and has an isoelectric point higher than pH 10 (Schwenke et al., 1973).
Oleosines are membrane proteins stabilizing the oleosomes within intact rapeseed cells. These exhibit a molecular weight of 20 kDa and represent approximately 6 to 8% of the rapeseed proteins. They are insoluble in aqueous solutions due to their hydrophobic character (Murphy, 1993). Altogether, compared to other plant proteins rapeseed proteins contain the often limited amino acids cysteine and methionine in a balanced proportion to lysine and other essential amino acids (Jones, 1979; Shahidi et al., 1997). Hence, rapeseed proteins comprise high nutritive potential after extensive removal of the aforementioned secondary plant metabolites which not only impair the sensory characteristics, but also the nutritive quality of rapeseed proteins.
For food applications also the functional properties of proteins are decisive. These properties are determined by intrinsic factors like their conformational structure, their amino acid sequence as well as extrinsic factors like pH of the solution, ionic strength, and temperature, respectively, and should be taken into consideration during process development.
Several aqueous and aqueous-alcoholic protein recovery procedures from rapeseed flours have already been described in literature (Rubin et al., 1988; Behlau, 1990; Wäsche, 2001). These processes for the production of rapeseed protein concentrates and isolates revealed products with high contents of phenolic compounds, and therefore, bitter and adstringent after-taste as well as an undesired, dark color. Hence, these products were not suitable for applications in feed or food. Further processes included the reduction of glucosinolates and phenolic compounds using a combination of methanol, ammonia and hexane for de-oiling (Naczk et al., 1985; Naczk et al., 1986; Rubin et al., 1988; Naczk and Shahidi, 1989). By applying this combination of solvents glucosinolates and phenolic compounds were reduced to 1.6 μmol/g and to 5 mg/g, respectively. The de-oiled rapeseed flours prepared by this process were characterized by a light color and a neutral taste according to the researchers. Despite these results, this technique has not been implemented into industrial scale due to the relatively high costs. Therefore, the adaption and development of novel processes including alternative separation procedures should focus on the extensive removal of phenolic acids and phytates to receive highly functional protein ingredients with high nutritive quality (Cheryan, 1980; Graf, 1983; Mieth et al., 1983; Serraino and Thompson, 1984; Thompson, 1987).
Fig. 1 Flowcharts of protein extraction processes developed in NAPUS 2000 (1a) and BayFo (1b). |
Altogether, the present manuscript focusses on the comparison of different process strategies for the production of light colored rapeseed protein isolates having high nutritive value. The investigated isolation procedures comprised either a simultaneous de-oiling and protein extraction step, aqueous ethanol extraction or aqueous processing with adapted separation processes as described in the results section.
2 Results
2.1 Rapeseed protein concentrate
The fractionation of transgenic rapeseed and the simultaneous extraction of oil and high quality proteins for the application in foodstuff were investigated in the German BMBF project NAPUS 2000 (Borcherding, 2005). The obtained rapeseed protein concentrates were evaluated on basis of their techno-functional properties, their sensory characteristics like color and taste as well as their suitability for application in sausages.
A considerable reduction of more than 80% of the rapeseed oil was achieved by utilizing water-alcohol mixtures for a simultaneous oil and protein extraction based on the friolex process (Frische et al., 1996). However, the residual oil content of the protein concentrates was still ~18%, whereas the protein content only amounted to 47%. Despite the considerable reduction of oil, the obtained rapeseed protein concentrate was not suitable for the application in food due to its high oil and low protein content. In order to facilitate the oil extraction, enzymatic processes to degrade the cell walls were investigated. Unfortunately, this degradation led to three different phases during separation consisting of an oil phase, an intermediate phase containing secondary plant metabolites, protein and oil and a solid phase, respectively.
In summary neither the aqueous-alcoholic nor the aqueous-enzymatic process could meet the requirements for a simultaneous production of high quality oil and protein ingredients. Consequently, further studies coupled conventional de-oiling procedures with an aqueous-alcoholic extraction of the residue to receive high quality protein-enriched food ingredients. Besides, the production process should ensure the removal of glucosinolates, mustard oils, phytic acid and phenolic compounds, which are known to reduce the nutritional quality of rapeseed protein products as well as their sensory acceptance (Jones, 1979; Shahidi et al., 1997).
Comparison of techno-functional properties of rapeseed protein concentrate (NAPUS) with and without high pressure homogenization with literature data.
The final process developed during the NAPUS Project is shown in Figure 1a. First step is the blanching of rapeseeds to inactivate the myrosinase, which degrades glucosinolates. Moreover, a reduction of glucosinolates and sinapic acid could be reached during this kind of thermal treatment. Subsequently, the seeds were hulled which led to the removal of phenolic compounds mainly concentrated in the hulls, and milled to fine flour prior to de-oiling with hexane. After de-oiling and desolventizing carbohydrates and secondary plant metabolites were extracted using aqueous isopropyl alcohol at a concentration of 45% (w/v). The separation of phenolic compounds and glucosinolates was guaranteed by the application of a binary mixture of these polar solvents. The following downstream steps included centrifugation, high pressure homogenization and spray drying of the protein concentrate. In contrast to the aforementioned processes, the protein content of the concentrate was increased to up to 60% and the residual oil content was lower than 2%. However, the alcoholic extraction affected the functional properties of the obtained concentrate and thus a re-functionalization step utilizing high pressure homogenization was necessary to receive a rapeseed protein concentrate which was suitable for the use in sausages and other food applications.
2.2 Characterization of the protein concentrate
For applications of proteins in sausages the techno-functional properties including gel-forming capacity (GFC), water- and fat-binding capacity (WBC, FBC), as well as emulsifying properties (emulsifying capacity (EC) and emulsion stability (ES)) were determined. Moreover, the influence of pH, protein concentration, salt concentration and temperature on these properties was analyzed in detail. As mentioned before the application of alcohol in the extraction process had a negative effect on the functional properties of the protein ingredient. Thus, a re-functionalization of the ingredient was required before its application in sausages. For this purpose thermal and mechanical treatments were evaluated. In each case the final ingredients were spray-dried (Barbin et al., 2011).
Instead of improving the desired protein properties thermal treatments rather lead to inferior characteristics (data not shown), which might be attributed to further denaturation of the proteins caused by heat treatment. In contrast to these findings, the mechanical treatment by means of high pressure homogenization led to an increase of the desired protein functionalities.
Table 1 visualizes that the homogenization resulted in an increase of the EC from 293 ml/g of the untreated protein concentrate to 345 ml/g. Furthermore, the protein solubility was slightly improved from 41% to 46% at pH 4.5 and from 53% to 57% at pH 7.0. However, no considerably influence was determined for the water and fat binding properties being similar with and without treatment.
Yoshie-Stark et al. presented a detailed summary of techno-functional properties of rapeseed meal including the influence of a steam treatment (Yoshie-Stark et al., 2006). Table 1 also presents the protein solubility and EC of a rapeseed protein concentrate produced by sodium-hexametaphosphate extraction (Liu et al., 1982; Thompson et al., 1982). Protein solubility of the concentrate is in the same range, but the EC of the homogenized concentrate developed in the NAPUS project was more than threefold higher and thus, superior to that of the concentrate reported by Thompson et al. (1982).
2.3 Application ranges of the products
The application of the rapeseed protein concentrates obtained with the NAPUS extraction process (Fig. 1a) was investigated in sausages. In a first experimental series the effect of protein concentrates from different rapeseed varieties on the quality of sausages was evaluated. Therefore, different concentrates obtained from Brassica napus subsp. Express, Lion and NEX were added to the sausages in amounts of 2% (w/w) and 4.5% (w/w), respectively. An addition of 4.5% of the rapeseed concentrates led to a dark brown coloring of the products. The protein concentrate from Brassica napus subsp. Lion was found to be the most promising for the application in sausages at a concentration of 2% because the water and fat separation was similar for the reference sausages and the sausages containing 2% rapeseed protein.
In the next step applicability of rapeseed protein concentrates as alternative for soy or lupine protein concentrates, as well as whey proteins or casein was proven. Therefore, 2% (w/w) of each protein concentrate were added to a common sausage formulation. The resulting products were examined in regard to fat and water separation, as well as their texture. Additionally, a comparative sensory evaluation was conducted.
The separation of water and oil after a 50-min heating at 105 °C indicated that EC and WBC of the samples containing rapeseed protein concentrate were comparable to the other samples. Water and oil losses amounted to approximately 1.3% for all samples, with exception for the sample prepared with whey protein concentrate having considerably higher losses of 2% resulting from lower emulsifying properties and water binding effects. The firmness of the sausages determined as breaking strength of the structure was analyzed using a texture analyzer. Sausages containing sodium caseinate and soy protein concentrate demonstrated the highest strength of 16–17 N. However, the strength of the other samples and mainly the ones containing rapeseed protein concentrates showed only slightly lower firmness (15 N).
The sensory tests comprised the evaluation of the cut surface of each sample, the color, the texture, the smell and the taste. Compared to the other samples the sausages containing rapeseed protein concentrates demonstrated a slightly different cut surface and also the color was slightly darker. The texture was found to be a little too soft corroborating the results of strength measured by means of a texture analyzer as described previously. Smell and taste of the sausage preparation containing the rapeseed protein concentrate were assessed to be strawy and oily.
However, in regard to its functional properties the rapeseed protein concentrate is a promising source for replacing milk and other vegetable proteins in sausages. Significant deviations from the other ingredients were obtained for the taste and color of rapeseed protein containing sausages. The improvement of the taste has been the focus of further research activities which are described below.
In addition to the application in sausages, baking trails were conducted aiming at a partial or even complete substitution of egg proteins by rapeseed proteins. Compared to the application in sausages similar techno-functional properties, particularly GFC and EC, are relevant for the egg replacement in bakery products due to the stabilization of dough properties and bubble formation during baking. Preliminary experiments indicated a comparable GFC between rapeseed protein concentrates and common egg ingredients (data not shown). The baking trials demonstrated that the volume expansion of pound cakes was similar in the products containing rapeseed protein concentrates compared to egg-containing references, even at a 100% substitution of egg. Similar to the sausages, the color of the rapeseed protein containing cake was slightly darker than the reference.
Composition of defatted rapeseed press cake, protein isolate UF and protein concentrate IP.
Contents of secondary plant metabolites (inositol phosphates, glucosinolates, sinapin and sinapic acid) of defatted rapeseed press cake and the protein products.
Summarizing, the techno-functional properties of the rapeseed protein concentrate obtained from the NAPUS extraction process were found to be suitable for application in bakery products with prospects of complete substitution of egg protein, as well as a functional ingredient in sausages to prevent water and oil separation. However, the color, as well as the flavor of the products has to be improved to reveal ingredients highly accepted by consumers.
2.4 Rapeseed protein isolate
In a further project funded by the Bavarian Research Fund the production of sensory improved rapeseed protein isolates and concentrates from cold pressed rapeseeds and their application in food were investigated (Müller, 2010). Before extraction, the cold pressed rapeseed cakes were further de-oiled using hexane to reduce the fat content to 2%. The rapeseed protein products were produced using two steps (acidic pre-extractions and alkaline protein extractions) as shown in Figure 1b. In the first step, secondary plant metabolites like phytic acid and polyphenols, as well as rapeseed albumins were removed using two acidic extraction-steps. After separation, the extract was further purified using a strong base anionic resin (Purolite A 200r, Purolite, USA) to remove phytic acid and an anorganic adsorber resin (EXM 1694, Clariant International Ltd., Switzerland) to remove polyphenols. After removal of the secondary plant metabolites, the extract was concentrated via ultrafiltration and the retentate was spray-dried to receive a rapeseed protein isolate UF for analytical characterization and food applications. The solid phase of the acidic pre-extractions was re-extracted at alkaline pH to dissolve the main storage protein fractions i.e. rapeseed globulins. The dissolved proteins were precipitated at the isoelectric point, neutralized and spray-dried to receive a rapeseed protein concentrate IP.
2.5 Characterization of the rapeseed protein preparations
The composition of the de-oiled press cake, as well as the rapeseed protein isolate UF and the protein concentrate IP are shown in Table 2. The protein isolate UF revealed a protein content of 91.2%, whereas the protein concentrate IP had 80.7% protein in dry matter. The high protein contents indicate the feasibility of the applied process for the simultaneous production of high quality rapeseed protein concentrates and isolates. Similar results were also reported by Yoshie-Stark et al. (2008). They described a fractionation process with alkaline extraction followed by isoelectric precipitation and ultrafiltration of the supernatant of the precipitate (Yoshie-Strak et al., 2008). However, the protein content of the rapeseed protein concentrate IP was significantly higher in the present study compared to the previously described results, which might be attributed to the application of acidic pre-extraction and adsorption to remove secondary plant metabolites (Yoshie-Strak et al., 2008).
The contents of essential amino acids of the rapeseed protein isolate UF and the protein concentrate IP almost achieved the values recommended by the WHO for daily intake in human beings (WHO/press 2007, Protein and amino acid requirements in human nutrition). Only the contents of cysteine and methionine in the rapeseed protein concentrate IP were below the recommended amounts. Histidine, leucine, isoleucine, valine, lysine, threonine, phenylalanine and tyrosine were present in sufficient amounts. Thus, the rapeseed ingredients of the described process are valuable resources for human nutrition and animal feed.
In addition to the overall composition, the contents of inositol phosphates (including phytic acid), glucosinolates, and sinapics have been analyzed to determine the amounts of undesirable secondary plant metabolites in the protein products (Tab. 3). The amount of glucosinolates in both the protein isolate UF and the protein concentrate IP has been reduced
extensively by the applied extraction procedure to levels below 0.3 μmol/g protein, which are well below the values reported in literature and that are recommended for daily intake (Bell, 1993). Even the commercially available rapeseed protein isolates of Burcon Nutra Science Corporation (Purateinr and Superteinr) are reported to have higher glucosinolate contents of 0.8 μmol/g depending on the protein product (Mejia et al., 2009a, 2009b). Therefore, the rapeseed protein concentrate UF and isolate IP are suitable ingredients for human nutrition and thus their application potential was evaluated. Additionally, the content of sinapin and sinapic acid was also reduced to 0.1 mg/g for sinapin and for sinapic acid to 0.3 mg/g and 1.4 mg/g for the protein isolate UF and the protein concentrate IP, respectively. In contrast to our findings, Purateinr and Superteinr had significantly higher phenolic acid contents of 0.4% and 0.3%, respectively (Mejia et al., 2009a, 2009b). Inositol phosphates including phytic acid were extensively removed during ultrafiltration resulting in a protein isolate with a content of 0.2%, whereas the content of inositol phosphates was 5.1% in the protein concentrate IP being higher than that of Purateinr and Superteinr, respectively (Mejia et al., 2009a, 2009b). However, similar contents of phytic acid in isoelectric precipitated isolates have been reported previously (Dev, 1986). Therefore, further developments should aim at reduction of phytic acid in the protein concentrate IP.
Furthermore, the techno-functional properties of the potential ingredients were evaluated according to standardized methods (Tab. 4).
Comparison of techno-functional properties of rapeseed protein isolate UF and rapeseed protein concentrate IP with commercially available protein products.
The techno-functional properties of the rapeseed protein products were similar or even superior to those of soy protein isolate and egg proteins, respectively. In detail, the protein solubility at pH 7 was 78% for the protein isolate and 14% for the protein concentrate. The low protein solubility of the concentrate is related to the isoelectric point of the protein fractions at pH 6.3 being close to pH 7. Protein solubility rises as the distance between the adjusted pH and the isoelectric point of the proteins increases.
Particularly, the protein isolate UF had an excellent emulsifying capacity of 810 ml/g, which is about 80% of that of sodium caseinate – a common emulsifier in foods. Besides the protein solubility, also the foaming properties of the isolate were excellent being even comparable to those of egg yolk protein and hen egg white powder. Similar results were also reported previously for isoelectric precipitated and ultra-filtrated rapeseed proteins (Yoshie-Strak et al., 2008). In contrast to these findings, the emulsifying capacity and the foaming properties were considerably lower for the protein concentrate IP, which is most likely related to the low solubility at pH 7 as protein solubility is supposed to directly influence the other functional characteristics of proteins (Cheftel, 1992). The water and oil binding capacities of the rapeseed protein concentrate IP and isolate UF also varied significantly. The protein concentrate IP revealed a water binding capacity of 1.0 ml/g and an oil binding capacity of 2.7 ml/g, whereas the protein isolate UF had water and oil binding capacities of 1.6 ml/g and 1.3 ml/g, respectively. Due to their excellent functional properties of both rapeseed protein ingredients, promising application in different food systems could be expected.
Application ranges of the rapeseed ingredients
To show the high potential of rapeseed proteins, the protein concentrate IP and the protein isolate UF were applied in sausages and mayonnaise. The cooking loss of sausages was reduced to 7.6% and 7.8% by adding rapeseed protein isolate UF and protein concentrate IP, respectively, or sodium caseinate (7.0%) in comparison to the reference products (8.6%). Therefore, both ingredients can be added to sausages to reduce the cooking losses as an alternative to sodium caseinate. The sensory evaluation of the sausages revealed similar results for the conventional, the sodium caseinate enriched and the rapeseed protein enriched sausages. Comparing the two rapeseed protein preparations the sausages containing rapeseed protein isolate UF were rated slightly higher compared to the sausages comprising the protein concentrate IP. This slight difference might be attributed to the presence of higher amounts of secondary plant metabolites (inositol phosphates, glucosinolates and sinapics) in the concentrate as shown in Table 3.
Furthermore, mayonnaise was prepared utilizing both rapeseed protein ingredients as substitute for egg proteins and compared to conventional products. Directly after preparation and after storage for 8 weeks, the firmness of the emulsions, the sensory properties and the color were evaluated using standardized methods. Mayonnaises containing rapeseed protein isolate UF exhibited similar firmness after preparation compared to the reference product, but were significantly firmer after storage. Mayonnaises prepared with the protein concentrate IP became softer during storage. The sensory evaluations revealed no significant differences between the investigated
mayonnaises, except the color. All rapeseed protein containing mayonnaises were found to be more brownish.
3 Conclusions and perspectives
The fractionizing of rapeseed kernels and press cakes by extractive processes opens a lot of possibilities for new vegan protein ingredients. In this study, different processes have been investigated to identify the right process configuration and parameters for achieving highly functional protein ingredients from rapeseed for the use in challenging food applications such as sausages, bakery products or mayonnaise.
The NAPUS process including hulling of the rapeseed kernels followed by an aqueous-alcoholic-extraction resulted in light colored concentrates with protein contents of about 60%. Although, the first appearance is good such aqueous-alcoholic concentrates showed poor functional properties due to the denaturation effects caused by the application of a mixture of water with isopropyl alcohol. This protein damage can only be partly compensated by re-functionalization using high pressure homogenizing, but the resulting solubility, emulsifying and foaming properties were not comparable to conventional food ingredients such as milk, casein or egg. Another weak point of concentrates from aqueous-alcoholic-extraction is presence of quite high amounts of secondary plant metabolites and flavor active components that lead to a brown color as well as an oily and strawy off-flavor, respectively. So the content of this rapeseed protein ingredient is limited to about 2% in sausages. As flavor and color are not as relevant for bakery applications, a 100% substitution of egg can be reached without any differences in volume expansion for pound cakes.
Protein ingredients from rapeseed with improved sensory and techno-functional properties could be achieved by aqueous extraction followed by adsorption of the extracts with specific adsorbtion resins. This process strategy enables the production of protein isolates with reduced off-flavors and optimized functional characteristics, because of mild processing conditions lacking protein denaturation. The isolates showed emulsifying properties that are comparable with casein and foaming properties better then hen egg white powder. Applications in sausages and mayonnaise did not reveal any weaknesses in texture, color and taste for the isolate compared to the conventional casein and egg-containing recipes. This shows the strength of rapeseed proteins compared e.g. to soy, were even native protein isolates do not show comparable emulsifying and foaming properties.
Therefore, future research should focus on improving the sustainability of the process by reducing water and adsorber consumption in order to receivehigh quality food ingredients from rapeseed at feasible costs.
Acknowledgments
The investigations have been carried out in the context of NAPUS 2000 and “Fraktionierung Raps-Presskuchen”. NAPUS 2000 was a promoted project to the topic “Nutrition – Innovative Processes for Food Production”, sponsored by BMBF. “Fraktionierung Raps-Presskuchen was a promoted project on the development of a fractionation process for rapeseed press-cake aiming the production of high quality protein products sponsored by the Bavarian research foundation. Additionally, the authors would like to thank all participating project partners for their support.
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Cite this article as: Daniela Von Der Haar, Klaus Müller, Stephanie Bader-Mittermaier, Peter Eisner. Rapeseed proteins – Production methods and possible application ranges. OCL 2014, 21(1) D104.
All Tables
Comparison of techno-functional properties of rapeseed protein concentrate (NAPUS) with and without high pressure homogenization with literature data.
Composition of defatted rapeseed press cake, protein isolate UF and protein concentrate IP.
Contents of secondary plant metabolites (inositol phosphates, glucosinolates, sinapin and sinapic acid) of defatted rapeseed press cake and the protein products.
Comparison of techno-functional properties of rapeseed protein isolate UF and rapeseed protein concentrate IP with commercially available protein products.
All Figures
Fig. 1 Flowcharts of protein extraction processes developed in NAPUS 2000 (1a) and BayFo (1b). |
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