Background and Objectives: Medicinal pastilles are soft candies made (solidified) of thick liquids containing medicinal active ingredients. Licorice and its extracts are within the most important herbal plants used in various food industries and confectionaries. The substance is effective against diseases such as bronchitis and gastric ulcers. Materials and Methods: In this study, effects of a...

In the present investigation, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was applied to various variables to describe meat quality. Sixteen meat quality variables were examined, and the analysis showed that 60.71% of the total variation was explained by the first three principal components. L, a, b as colour data; odour, tenderness, flavour, acceptability as sensorial traits; hardness and chewiness as ...

Dietary fiber is a broad term that describes the part of plant foods that your body cannot digest. It is found mainly in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes (beans and peas), nuts and seeds. Fiber is what puts the bulk in lettuce, the crunch in carrots and the chewiness in wholegrain bread. Foods high in fiber are usually low in calories and fat while packed with vitamins, minerals and ot...

In this study, we investigated the effects of reducing fat levels from 30% to 25, 20, and 15% by substituting pork fat with water and pumpkin fiber (2%) on the quality of frankfurters compared with control. Decreasing the fat concentration from 30% to 15% significantly increased moisture content, redness of meat batter and frankfurter, cooking loss, and water exudation, and decreased fat conten...

Response surface methodology (RSM) was used to optimize pizza cheese containing carrot extract. The effects of two important independent variables including soybean oil (5%-20%) and carrot extract (5%-20%) were studied on physicochemical and textural properties of pizza cheese containing carrot extract. According to the results, RSM was successfully used for optimizing formulation of pizza chee...

The influence of harvest method on proximate composition, protein oxidation, and texture profile beef from Nellore cattle were investigated. Longissimus lumborum (LL) muscles obtained twelve grain-fed carcasses. animals slaughtered after stunning (STU; n=6) or without (WST; 24 hours postmortem, the LL was sliced into 2.54-cm steaks, packed under aerobic conditions, stored at 4°C for nine days. ...

In order to improve the nutritional value and quality of steamed bread, promote industrial development whole-grain food industry, a texture analyzer was used study effects cultivars whole foxtail millet flour (WFMF) on Chinese bread (CSB). Orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) also conducted. The addition different WFMF significantly altered height–diameter ratio, spe...

The effects of sea tangle, sea mustard, hijiki, and glasswort were investigated based on the proximate composition, salinity, cooking loss, emulsion stability, pH, color, texture profile analysis, apparent viscosity, and sensory characteristics of reduced-salt (NaCl) meat batter and frankfurters. The moisture content, salinity, lightness of the meat batter and frankfurter, hardness, gumminess, ...

The effect of fish gelatin addition on mass transfer, nutrient loss, texture and nanostructure of fish balls was investigated. Mass transfer models were built and the root-mean-square-errors were 0.1432, 0.3178 and 0.1000 for exponential, power-law and linear models, respectively. After gelatin addition, the mass transfer coefficient/model parameter and moisture content increased, and the hardn...