American Chemical Society, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 12(61), p. 3111-3120, 2013
DOI: 10.1021/jf304699k
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To modulate isoflavone aglycone composition within a soy functional food, soy ingredients were processed and evaluated in a soy bread system intended for clinical trials. Soy flour/soymilk mixture (SM) was boiled, fermented, steamed or roasted prior to dough preparation. The isoflavone composition of five processed SM and their corresponding breads combined with and without β-glucosidase-rich almonds were examined using HPLC. Isoflavone malonyl-glucosides (>80%) were converted into acetyl and simple glucoside forms (substrates more favorable for ß-glucosidase) in steamed and roasted SM. Their corresponding breads had isoflavones predominantly as aglycones (~75%) with soy-almond bread with steamed SM being more consumer acceptable than roasted. Isoflavone composition in soy bread was stable during frozen storage and toasting. A suitable glycoside-rich soy bread (31.6±2.1 mg aglycone equivalents/slice) using unprocessed SM and an aglycone-rich soy-almond bread (31.1±1.9 mg aglycone equivalents/slice) using steamed SM were developed to evaluate fundamental questions of isoflavone bioavailability in clinical trials.