The present invention relates to a novel process for the ozone treatment
of unground plant materials such as wheat grains. According to the
invention, this process consists in allowing the plant material to stand
for at least one day after a prehumidification followed by an ozonization
involving a complementary humidification that adds from 3 to 10% by
weight of water, based on the dry weight of the plant material. This
process is applied especially to wheat grains. In this case, a process
according to the invention that enables the ozone to reach the core of
the grains is carried out in order to manufacture so-called
"technological" flours. The physical and chemical properties of such
flours, observed as a function of the parameters of the ozonization
process, are presented.