{"id":27911,"date":"2024-11-12T02:35:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T21:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27911"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:49:25","slug":"gluten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gluten\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Gluten?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gluten:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>protein found<\/strong>\u00a0in the wheat plant and some other grains.<\/li>\n<li>Many cereal grains \u2014 but in particular\u00a0<strong>barley, wheat, and rye<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 contain specific proteins that, when mixed with water and kneaded, create an elastic mass.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Two important types of these proteins are\u00a0<strong>gliadins and glutenins<\/strong>. At the microscopic level, gluten is an elastic mesh of the protein molecules.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>naturally occurring, but it can be extracted<\/strong>, concentrated and added to food and other products to add protein, texture and flavor.<\/li>\n<li>It also works as a binding agent to hold processed foods together and give them shape.<\/li>\n<li>It allows the dough to rise and gives it its chewy character.<\/li>\n<li>The ability of gliadins and glutenins to create gluten makes them prized ingredients in the food industry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Issues of Gluten<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>An\u00a0<strong>enzyme called protease<\/strong>\u00a0helps digest proteins but it cannot break down gluten. When such gluten reaches the small intestine, the body can develop gastrointestinal problems.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coeliac disease:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s characterised by a severe allergic reaction in the small intestine, prompting the immune system to produce a large number of antibodies that attack the body\u2019s own proteins. The disease is present in around 2% of the general population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is protein?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the workhorse in biological systems facilitating most of biological processes in a cell, including gene expression, cell growth, proliferation, nutrient uptake, intercellular communication and apoptosis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/gluten-animator-of-the-dough\/article68851884.ece#:~\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0Gluten: animator of the dough<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gluten  is a protein found in the wheat plant and some other grains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}