Journal
PLANT FOODS FOR HUMAN NUTRITION
Volume 65, Issue 3, Pages 241-246Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11130-010-0187-z
Keywords
Amaranth; Bread making; Cookie making; Gluten-free
Funding
- Mexican Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT) [S0008-2009-01-115212]
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Gluten-free bakery foodstuffs are a challenge for technologists and nutritionists since alternative ingredients used in their formulations have poor functional and nutritional properties. Therefore, gluten-free bread and cookies using raw and popped amaranth, a grain with high quality nutrients and promising functional properties, were formulated looking for the best combinations. The best formulation for bread included 60-70% popped amaranth flour and 30-40% raw amaranth flour which produced loaves with homogeneous crumb and higher specific volume (3.5 ml/g) than with other gluten-free breads. The best cookies recipe had 20% of popped amaranth flour and 13% of whole-grain popped amaranth. The expansion factor was similar to starch-based controls and the hardness was similar (10.88 N) to other gluten-free cookies. Gluten content of the final products was around 12 ppm. The functionality of amaranth-based doughs was acceptable although hydrocolloids were not added and the final gluten-free products had a high nutritional value.
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