Nowadays, non-alcoholic (NAB) and low-alcoholic beers (LAB) still significantly suffer from staling defects when fresh, partially due to absence of ethanol as antioxidant. In the current work, fate flavan-3-ols (monomers, dimers, trimers) bitter compounds (isohumulones, humulinones, etc.) 11 commercial NABLABs available on Belgian market was monitored through one year aging at 20 °C in dark. Fr...

Researchers have revealed many novel applications for plum and raisin products as functional natural bakery ingredients. Raisin and plum concentrate were incorporated into the bread formulation at different concentrations and their effects on the rheological, baking properties and shelf life of breads were evaluated. The results showed that the use of plum concentrate at 6% had the highest wate...

Functional foods (e.g., gluten-free (GF)) products need continuous improvements in quality characteristics. Generally, GF like rice bread (RB) are found to be nutritionally poor when compared gluten-containing ones. Moreover, due the absence of gluten, technological properties RB different from those wheat (WB). This study was conducted on gluten free (GFRB) for improving its chemical, physical...

Commercially available gluten free breads are of low quality and have a rapid staling during storage, therefore attempts were made to obtain gluten free bread of improved structure properties and extended shelf-life. For this purpose laboratory obtained bean starch, both native or hydrothermally modified, was added to a gluten free formulation. Texture results revealed differences between the b...

Yu K., Wang Y., Xu Y., Guo L., Du X. (2016): Correlation between wheat starch annealing conditions and retrogradation during storage. Czech J. Food Sci., 34: 79–86. The effects of annealing conditions on the degree of retrogradation (DR) in wheat starch were analysed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Three annealing parameters were varied, namely moisture (...

A traditional Greek sourdough, based on the fermentation of chickpea flour by an autochthonous culture, was evaluated as a wheat bread improver. The dominant indigenous microflora (Clostridium perfringens isolates) identified 16S rDNA analysis, and selected strain (C. CP8) employed to ferment obtain standardized starter culture (sourdough) for breadmaking. In accordance with toxin-typed identif...