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Barley for Food and Health: Science, Technology, and Products

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136 EVALUATION OF FOOD PRODUCT QUALITY<br />

600<br />

FU<br />

500<br />

400<br />

300<br />

200<br />

Stability = 2.5 min<br />

FQN = 30<br />

Development time = 1.8 min<br />

Degree of softening<br />

= 135 FU<br />

12 min<br />

100<br />

0<br />

5 10<br />

Min<br />

15<br />

FIGURE 6.2 Representative farinogram showing some commonly measured indices.<br />

FU, farinograph units; FQN, farinograph quality number. (Courtesy of C.W. Brabender<br />

Instruments, Inc., South Hackensack, New Jersey.)<br />

the mixograph (TMCO, Lincoln, Nebraska), originally called the Swanson mixer,<br />

provides a planetary-type action <strong>and</strong> is more suited to testing dough made from<br />

hard wheat.<br />

The second phase of bread baking, structural trans<strong>for</strong>mation of dough by<br />

fermentation <strong>and</strong> maturation, employs stress–strain instruments that measure<br />

resistance of dough to extension. The extensiograph, also a Brabender instrument,<br />

records the resistance of dough to stretching <strong>and</strong> the distance a dough stretches<br />

be<strong>for</strong>e breaking, according to Approved Method 54-10 (AACC 2000). Another<br />

texture analyzer, the TA-XTZ (Stable Micro Systems, Surrey, Engl<strong>and</strong>), is also<br />

effective <strong>for</strong> measuring resistance to extension. The third phase of bread baking,<br />

gelatinization, is measured by the Brabender amylograph by Approved Method<br />

22-10 (AACC 2000). This instrument records relative viscosity, or the resistance<br />

of stirring a suspension of flour in water while temperature is increased.<br />

Starch granules swell when they approach a certain temperature, <strong>and</strong> amylose<br />

molecules seep into the liquid medium, increasing solubles concentration <strong>and</strong><br />

there<strong>for</strong>e increasing viscosity. In its late phases, this gelatinization is also known<br />

as pasting. Whenα-amylase is present, this enzyme’s action on starch results in<br />

paste thinning. Part of the starch is hydrolyzed <strong>and</strong> liquefied, with reduced viscosity,<br />

<strong>and</strong> these viscosity changes are recorded by the amylograph. Izydorczyk<br />

et al. (2001) per<strong>for</strong>med dynamic oscillatory testing using a Bohlin VOR rheometer<br />

(Bohlin Reologi, Edison, New Jersey). This system provides simultaneous<br />

measurements of elastic <strong>and</strong> viscous properties of dough.<br />

The Rapid Visco Analyzer (Newport Scientific Pt. Ltd., Warriewood, Australia)<br />

is used to measure the relative viscosity of a mixture according to Approved

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