7. Materials and methods
7.1 Raw materials
Four different samples were analysed chemically and functionally. These samples were
Sacha Inchi flour and Sacha Inchi press cake, the untreated seeds and the crushed hulls
(shown in fig. 4). The flour and press cake are produced by a plurality of processing
steps of the seeds. The flow chart of this process is shown in fig. 5.
The raw materials were provided by the company Agroindustrias Osho S.A.C. from
Peru, Lima. Because of the different samples the analytical results differed a lot. The
materials were stored at 4 °C until analyses.