The rising of bread and the quality of the baked loaf depend upon the nature of the dough and especially upon such of its properties as tenacity, ductility, and elasticity. These properties are hard to define theoretically in this complex colloidal system, but they are, as we have found, related to viscosity or to whatever may determine the resistance of dough to stirring and to flowing through...

It is known that crystalline amylopectin of starch plays a role of resistant starch. Although crystalline amylopectin of starchy food melts almost completely during its heat-processing, the melting may be prevented by a pre-dehydration treatment, because melting temperature of the crystalline amylopectin increases with a decrease in the water content of starch. In order to some insight into the...

The use of pseudocereals and ancient grains for breadmaking applications is receiving particular attention since they involve nutrient dense grains with proven with health-promoting attributes. Dilution up to 20% of the basic rye/wheat flour blend by accumulative addition of amaranth, buckwheat, quinoa and teff flours (5% single flour) did positively impact either some dough visco-metric and vi...

The relationship between characterictics of flour of common wheat varieties and fresh pasta-making qualitites was examined, and the fresh pasta-making properties of extra-strong varieties that have extra-strong dough were evaluated. There was a positive correlation between mixing time (PT) and hardness of boiled pasta, indicating that the hardness of boiled pasta was affected by dough propertie...

BACKGROUND Gliadins are a major component of gluten proteins but their role in the mixing of dough is not well understood because their contribution to wheat flour functional properties are not as clear as for the glutenin fraction. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Transgenic lines of bread wheat with γ-gliadins suppressed by RNAi are reported. The effects on the gluten protein composition and ...

Cereal Chem. 72(l):53-58 The range in moduli for isolated starch and vital gluten doughs showed action of the starch with the gluten. The source of gluten also had a the existence of starch-gluten or starch-gluten-water interactions in dough. significant effect on dough rheology, as indicated by the range of elastic Starches isolated from different wheat cultivars and mixed into dough (G') and ...