Sepideh Etezazian; Mohammad Fazel; Hajar Abbasi
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Introduction: Sponge cake is one of the most demanded and consuming grain products, but due to its gluten content, it is not usable for patients with celiac disease. In recent years, gluten-free products have gained a great attraction. However, producing gluten-free products has several difficulties ...
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Introduction: Sponge cake is one of the most demanded and consuming grain products, but due to its gluten content, it is not usable for patients with celiac disease. In recent years, gluten-free products have gained a great attraction. However, producing gluten-free products has several difficulties such as lack of gluten viscoelastic network protein constituents, lower technological quality and advent of some quality problems in production including low volume and weak texture. Some compounds such as certain enzymes and gums with the aim of improving the texture, mouth feeling and general acceptance, as well as imitating viscoelastic properties of gluten could be employed in the formulation of gluten-free products to make them acceptable for the celiac patients. For this purpose, guar gum is used widely as a thickener and stabilizer for producing gluten-free products. Also, addition of enzymes to grains produce could help in increasing the holding water capacity, improving softness and dough flexibility, enhancing texture and final product’s volume. Furthermore, notwithstanding widely researches on the cake, comparing to other production, this production has low nutrition values yet. So, enriched cakes with dietary fiber and natural antioxidants, is one of the goals of the industry. The researches has shown that dried, powdered and extracted pomegranate peel has rich fiber, bioactive materials and high antioxidative characteristics. Therefore, the main purpose of the present research is to study the effect of replacing the pomegranate peel (0-12 %), Guar gum (0-1.5 %) and Hemicellulase enzyme (0-90 ppm), respectively on the physiochemical properties.
Material &Methods: Moisture content measurement of moisture by oven, density by using rapeseed seeds displacement method, hardness (STM 200 device), color index of crumb and crust by using CIE Lab colorimetric system that measure L* (brightness), a* (redness) and b* (yellowish), antioxidant activity with spectrophotometery method in 517 nm wavelength, and sensory properties of gluten-free sponge cake based on wheat starch. In association with sensory test,30 panelists was used for checking desirability of mouth texture, appearance texture, smell and taste, color, after-taste and general acceptance with six point hedonic test that they rated samples from most agreeability to most un agreeability. For this aim, the statistical plan of response surface method (RSM) of central composite design (CCD) with three variables and four central points were used and the texture test was applied four times and the other tests were applied three times. For this purpose the Design-Expert 7.0.0 software was utilized for determining of optimum point (a point in which the minimum density and hardness that this parameters considered as a blank in the cake limits), Duncan examination was used for comparing the average of data and analyze of data was implemented with SPSS 16 software.
Results & Discussion: The results have shown that increasing the percentage of pomegranate peel in the formulation, density and bright and yellowish cakes were decreased and moisture, a* index, DPPH and hardness were increased. From the other hand, increasing the amount of replacing the gum caused to increase density, moisture and hardness. Adding the enzyme had effect in decreasing the light of crust and increasing density and color index in the crust of the cake. Totally was determined pomegranate peel had more effect on the antioxidant activity, density, hardness and colorful properties. Guar gum had fewer effect on this parameters and played most important roll on moisture of cakes. About enzyme can say it didn’t have significant effect on properties of cakes. Then, the optimum points has been defined via the software that the amounts of pomegranate peel and the guar gum were estimated at 9.1 and 0.56 %respectively, and the amount for hemicellulase enzyme calculated as 0 ppm. After that, the properties of the optimum cake were compared with blank cake and in addition to previous tests, sensory test was also performed. Moreover moisture and hardness of optimum cake was investigated in during of 14 days storage (days of 1, 7 and 14).The results have shown the physical, chemical and texture properties of optimum cake were largely similar to the blank samples and the main difference was in taste sensory properties of pomegranate peel that will corrected with the use of flavor agents. Over time, also, moisture was decreased and hardness was increased primarily and decreased later in both of blank and optimum sample. Therefore, gluten-free cake based on wheat starch with 9.1 percent pomegranate peel and 0.56 percent guar gum can be used, that only doesn’t have adverse effect on its properties, but also is acceptable for celiac patient.
Seyed Ali Mortazavi; Zahra Sheikholeslami; Mehdi GhiafeDavoodi
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Introduction: Bread stales and unfortunately it is a certainty and causes significant product waste all over the world.Staling results in loss of important sensory parameters of bread, like flavor and texture, and it is a consequence of a group of several physical–chemical changes occurring during ...
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Introduction: Bread stales and unfortunately it is a certainty and causes significant product waste all over the world.Staling results in loss of important sensory parameters of bread, like flavor and texture, and it is a consequence of a group of several physical–chemical changes occurring during bread storage that lead mainly to an increase of crumb firmness and loss of freshness (Gray and Bemiller 2003). At 21th century freezing technology introduced to bakery industry in order to increase bread shelf life, access fresh bread with a minimum need for equipment and skilled personal at any time.The current trend in the baking industry is to use frozen dough to manufacture quality products because it can be quickly transformed into fresh baked product. However, the use of frozen dough has certain disadvantages such as its variable performance and loss of stability over long-term frozen storage (Ribotta and Le Bail 2007). Research has shown that ice crystallization and recrystallization causes physical damage to the gluten network, leading to changes in the rheological properties of the frozen dough. Water available for freezing forms ice crystals that injure yeast cells (Mazur 1968). Gums trap free water and control moisture migration.Furthermore, Ward and Andon (1993) mentioned that gums such as carboxymethyl cellulose, carrageenan, gum arabic, and locust bean gum may be used to alleviate the problems associated with frozen dough. Numerous studies report that enzymes play key roles in bread making such as increasing loaf volume, producing finer crumb cells, and extending shelf-life. Amylase improved frozen dough bread quality; the enzyme allowed us to obtain breads from frozen dough with high specific volume and low crumb firmness(Ribotta and Le Bail 2007). Therefore, the aim of this work was to study the effect of guar gum and alpha amylase on frozen dough and the influence of them on the minimization of the damage caused by frozen storage. Materials and methods: Wheat flour sample (cvs, Pishgam) with 10.52% moisture, 10.8% proteins ,79% ash, 26.7% wet gluten, was obtained from silo No.3, Mashhad, Iran. Bread recipes also contained active dry yeast (Razavi Co., Mashhad, Iran), vegetable oil( Ladan Co. Behshahr, Iran), salt and sugar (Local market). Amylase enzyme (25 klu/g) and guar gum afforded from Novozyme and Rodhia CO respectively. The bread formula used for Barbari bread consisted of flour (100 parts), compressed yeast (2 parts), salts (2 parts), sugars (1parts), vegetable oil (1 part) and water (based on water absorption at 500 BU). Guar and amylase replaced in bread formulation at two levels (0.4 and 0.8%), and (0.05. 0.07 %) respectively. Bread was part baked in an electric oven with an incorporated proofing chamber (Zuccihelli, forni, Hal, Italy) at 210˚C for 7 min to obtain texture structure before starting coloring reaction. Barbari bread sample were packaged in polyethylene bags and frozen in a blast freezer. After storage at -18°C for 15 day, PBF bread was thawed at room temperature for 10 min and rebaked at 260°C for 8 min. The fresh bread baked at 230 °C for 15 mines (Ba´rcenas and Rosell, 2007). Specific volume , porosity, texture evaluation, image analysis (L*a*b*) and sensory evaluation of bread were measured using AACC methods (2000). Results were reported as the average of three replications (all treatments were evaluated in three batches). The data obtained were statistically treated by a complete randomized design (factorial) analysis while the means were compared by the Duncan’s test at a significance level of 5%, in both cases using SPSS statistical software (version 17). Result and discussion: The results showed that frozen storage had significant effects on the specific volume, moisture content, crumb hardness, sensory properties and bread color. Addition of gum and enzyme to bread recipe improved bread quality, alone and in combination. The presence of guar and amylase removing the negative effects of process conditions. Addition of guar at 0.4% improved specific volume, textural properties, color, sensory score and decrease bread firmness. Also using of amylase in 0.07%,increased bread quality. When guar used in combination with amylase, the synergistic effect was observed. The best result, obtained with 0.4% guar and 0.07% amylase. Conclution: In summary, the result of this study has shown that textural and sensory properties of part baked frozen bread were poor. Addition of guar gum increased specific volume and sensory score of bread. Guar in 0.4% concentration in comination with amylase in 0.07%, were more effective and it could introduce as a improver for part baked frozen bread.
Rahil Rezaei; Morteza Khomeiri; Mehran Alami; Mahdi Kashani-Nejad
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In this study, effects of Guar and Arabic gum on the viability of two common probiotic, Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium lactis, in frozen yogurt during 60 days were investigated. Results of survival evaluation of probiotics showed that although during storage time bacteria counts decreased ...
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In this study, effects of Guar and Arabic gum on the viability of two common probiotic, Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium lactis, in frozen yogurt during 60 days were investigated. Results of survival evaluation of probiotics showed that although during storage time bacteria counts decreased significantly, this product could maintain 107 cfu/gr of probiotic at the end of storage. Maximum death rate of lactobacillus acidophilus was observed in control sample. Best viability of this microorganism was seen in samples containing 0.2% guar gum and 0.1% Arabic gum that these two treatments had no significant difference. The highest loss of bifidobacterium lactis belonged to sample containing 0.3% guar and lowest was seen in samples containing 0.1% Guar and 0.1% Arabic gum.