phytic acid

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phytic acid

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human nutrition
Minerals
Phytic acid, found principally in cereal grains and legumes, can form complexes with some minerals and make them insoluble and thereby indigestible. Only a small percentage of the calcium in spinach is absorbed because spinach also contains large amounts of oxalic acid, which binds calcium.…
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Phytic acid, found principally in cereal grains and legumes, can form complexes with some minerals and make them insoluble and thereby indigestible. Only a small percentage of the calcium in spinach is absorbed because spinach also contains large amounts of oxalic acid, which binds calcium.…
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cereal processing
Enrichment
…proportion of the somewhat harmful phytic acid in cereals, interfering with absorption by the body of calcium, is also destroyed; and enrichment of the products with vitamin B₁, and sometimes other components of the vitamin B complex, is not difficult to perform after the various cooking operations have been completed.
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…proportion of the somewhat harmful phytic acid in cereals, interfering with absorption by the body of calcium, is also destroyed; and enrichment of the products with vitamin B₁, and sometimes other components of the vitamin B complex, is not difficult to perform after the various cooking operations have been completed.
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