Atividade hemaglutinante em sementes exóticas germinadas e comestíveis

Abstract

The unconventional seeds have been gaining ground in the food scene by the arguments that they are beneficial to health; concomitant to this fact, the consumption of these seeds germinated, is increasing sustained by gains related to nutritional quality, especially the Quinoa, Sunflower, Fenugreek, Mungo beans, Azuki beans and sesame. However, seed germination alter your metabolism and composition, fact related, according to the literature, the higher synthesis and lower degradation of agglutinins. The objective of this study consisted in evaluating the hemagglutination activity in aqueous total extracts of germinated seeds and edible exotic. Were tested the hemagglutination activity, the dependence on ions and the inhibition of carbohydrate extracts from these seeds. As a result, for seeds analyzed, we identified the presence of agglutinin in all germinated seeds being more significant in sesame seeds (88.11 HU/mg) and sunflower (61.07 HU/mg), and the seeds that do not germinated, they had not only the hemagglutination activity of Quinoa, Mungo beans and Sesame. The specificity for blood types (AB0), treated with papain or trypsin ranging from seeds, as well as dependence by ion magnesium and calcium, paying attention to the growing need for further studies of anti-nutritional factors in alternative foods and sprouted seeds