Fusarium Mycotoxins in Two Hulless Oat and Barley Cultivars Used for Food Purposes.

ABSTRACT: Hulless oats and hulless barley are highly valued for their excellent nutritional attributes and are increasingly being promoted in human nutrition. However, special attention should be paid to the risk of their contamination by Fusarium mycotoxins, as the rate of mycotoxin reduction during processing could be much lower than that for hulled cereals. In the present study, mycotoxin contamination of two cultivars, each of hulless oats and barley suitable for food purposes were studied in a 3-year field trial established in two contrasting environments. The contents of the mycotoxins regulated by law (deoxynivalenol and zearalenone) were low, and the present legal limits for their maximum content in unprocessed cereals were far from being exceeded. The mycotoxins most frequently occurring in

SUBMITTER: Polisenska I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7466365 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature