{"id":13436,"date":"2019-10-10T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/?p=13436"},"modified":"2023-06-22T08:07:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:07:10","slug":"is-silicon-an-essential-nutrient-implications-for-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instapro.spinuhost.com\/en\/blog\/nutritionandtechnologies\/is-silicon-an-essential-nutrient-implications-for-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Silicon an Essential Nutrient?  Implications for Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s well known that dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/en\/blog\/nutritionandtechnologies\/perhaps-more-important-than-ever-to-make-quality-food-products\/\">nutrients<\/a> are essential for health and well-being.\u00a0 Deficiency symptoms of many nutrients have been well-documented over the years.\u00a0 The shocking outcomes of eating an unbalanced, nutrient-poor diet for years continue to become apparent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-49551337\">even in 2019<\/a>.\u00a0 Also, too much of a nutrient in the right dose does not make it better \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overnutrition\">overnutrition<\/a>, leading to obesity, one type of diabetes, inflammation, and likely contributing to a host of disease states, is just as bad, if not worse.\u00a0 In short, balance with nutrition is key.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this, consider the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vitamins, essential nutrients, were essentially unknown a little over 100 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>The functions and importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/nutrition\/vitamin-k2#heart-health\">vitamin K2<\/a> were largely unknown until a few decades ago.<\/li>\n<li>Effects of nutrients in food on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_gastrointestinal_microbiota\">gut microbes<\/a> are only beginning to be understood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, maintaining a balanced intake of nutrients is important, and some of them are not well understood.\u00a0 It\u2019s also quite possible some have not been identified.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silicon\">Silicon<\/a>, a rare earth mineral, is a good case-in-point.<\/p>\n<p>Silicon is a mineral in the soil that becomes <a href=\"http:\/\/hopefulgeranium.blogspot.com\/2017\/03\/the-role-of-silicon-in-health-and.html\">concentrated in the bran<\/a> portion of grains.\u00a0 Just a few years ago, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/28179233\">mechanism for its absorption<\/a> from the intestine was identified, which means that\u2019s it\u2019s a nutrient of some importance.\u00a0 This goes well with <a href=\"http:\/\/hopefulgeranium.blogspot.com\/2017\/03\/the-role-of-silicon-in-health-and.html\">past research<\/a> indicating the likely necessity of this mineral in the diet.<\/p>\n<p>What does this have to do with processing?\u00a0 Many industrial processes separate the bran from the kernel.\u00a0 This occurs often, in particular with wheat and rice, and in the latter case, care must be taken to stabilize the rice bran within a matter of hours to avoid rancidity of the residual oil \u2013 we\u2019ve covered this before on the Insta-Pro blog.\u00a0 Dry extrusion not only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/en\/blog\/nutritionandtechnologies\/rice-bran-an-invaluable-by-product\/\">stabilizes rice bran<\/a>, allowing long-term storage, but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insta-pro.com\/en\/blog\/nutritionandtechnologies\/rice-bran-better\/\">makes it better<\/a>.\u00a0 In case you\u2019re wondering, rice bran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/317371239_Development_of_a_Process_for_Preparation_of_Low_Silica_Stabilized_Rice_Bran_for_use_as_a_Food_Supplement\">contains<\/a> about 5% silicon (assuming the rice was grown in silicon-adequate soil).<\/p>\n<p>In nutritional sciences, we should proceed as if we don\u2019t know everything.\u00a0 Processing methods should consider what\u2019s happening to nutrients, even those that we may not know anything about.\u00a0 Choosing methods, like high shear dry extrusion, that provide a thorough cook process, but also maintain and enhance the availabilities of many nutrients, should be the cornerstone of modern food processing systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s well known that dozens of nutrients are essential for health and well-being.\u00a0 Deficiency symptoms of many nutrients have been well-documented over the years.\u00a0 The shocking outcomes of eating an unbalanced, nutrient-poor diet for years continue to become apparent, even in 2019.\u00a0 Also, too much of a nutrient in the right dose does not make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7180],"tags":[1450,93,1389,8110],"class_list":["post-13436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutritionandtechnologies","tag-nutrition","tag-processing-feed-or-food","tag-rice-bran","tag-silicon"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.2 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Silicon an Essential Nutrient? 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