Optimization of oven toasting for improving crispness and other quality attributes of ready to eat potato-soy snack using response surface methodology

Ready-to-eat potato-soy snacks were developed with high temperature short time air puffing process followed by oven toasting for increasing crispness. Oven toasting experiments were conducted with varying temperature (85.86-114.14 degrees C) and time (12.69-35.31 min) based on central composite rotatable design. The final product was evaluated in terms of quality attributes such as crispness, moisture content, ascorbic acid loss, colour (L and Delta E) values and overall acceptability. The optimum product qualities in terms of crispness (38.7), moisture content (3.35%, db), ascorbic acid loss (20.87%, db), L value (52.03), Delta E (8.60) and overall acceptability (7.8) were obtained at temperature of 104.4 degrees C and time of 27.9 min. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.