Preparation and Physicochemical Properties of Cucurbit Protein Isolate from Lagenaria siceraria Defatted Seed Flour

• Main Authors: Mariod, Abdalbasit A., Mustafa, Makarim M., Nour, Abdelazim A. M., Abdallah, Mahmood A.
• Format: Article
• Published: Centenary University 2022
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/43746/; https://doi.org/10.29133/yyutbd.1082855

Cucurbit seeds including Lagenaria siceraria seeds have been used from early times as a source of food. The protein constitutes about thirty-five percent of the weight of the decorticated seeds. Isolates are defined as the kind of protein that forms with a high concentration of protein that contains...