Study of the Potassium Content in Amaranth Protein Using the Gamma Spectrometry Technique

• 作者: Carmenángeles Galloso Guillermo Espinosa-García Laura Vargas-Ulloa Manuel Soriano-García
• 来源期刊: 材料科学与工程:中英文B版
• 学科: 工学
• 关键词: POTASSIUM amaranth(Amaranthus hypochondriacus) GAMMA SPECTROMETRY K-40 HPGE
• 年，卷（期）: clkxygczy-b,（2）
• 页码范围: 50-55
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: TB

摘要

Amaranthus is a dicotyledonous pseudocereal and one of the new world’s oldest crops,having originated from Meso-America and was a major food crop of the Aztecs.Popularity in the cultivation and consumption of Amaranthus seed in the modern era began in the mid-1970s with the rediscovery and promotion of amaranth due to its superior nutritional attributes as compared to cereal grains.Amaranth plant has a high-quality protein,carbohydrates,unsaturated oil,squalene,dietary fiber,tocopherols,phenolic compounds,flavonoids,vitamins and minerals.The amaranth’s grain was collected at San Martin Pahuacan,Estado de Mexico,Mexico.The used methodology is gamma spectrometry with Hyperpure Germanium detector(HPGe)and Multichannel Analyzer(MCA)with Maestro software.The result shows a unique concentration of radioactive potassium content in the amaranth protein isolated from amaranth grains is 424.1 mg/100 g of amaranth protein.There is an excellent agreement between the amount of potassium determined by atomic absorption spectroscopy in our laboratory and the value obtained in this work using the Gamma Spectrometry Technique.