The Potential Use of Cold-Pressed Pumpkin Seed Oil By-Products in a Low-Fat Salad Dressing: The Effect on Rheological, Microstructural, Recoverable Properties, and Emulsion and Oxidative Stability.

Zeynep Hazal Tekin-Cakmak,Salih Karasu,Ilker Atik

doi:10.3390/foods10112759

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The cold-pressed pumpkin seed oil by-product (POB) was evaluated for its application as a natural fat substitute and stabilizer in the reduced-fat salad dressings. For this aim, the samples were prepared by combining the xanthan gum (0.2–0.4 g/100 g), POB (1.0–5.0 g/100 g), egg yolk powder (3 g/100 g), and sunflower oil (10–30 g/100 g) in 17 different formulations. The optimization was carried out using response surface methodology (RSM) and full factorial central composite design (CCD). Results showed that all samples presented the shear-thinning (or pseudoplastic) flow behavior with 3.75–16.11 Pa·sn and 0.18–0.30, K and n values, respectively. The flow behavior rheological data were fitted to a power-law model (R2 > 0.99). The samples with high POB and low oil content showed similar K and n values compared to high oil content samples. Additionally, the dynamic rheological properties and three interval thixotropic test (3-ITT) were determined. The G′ value was larger than G″ in all frequency ranges, indicating viscoelastic solid characteristics in all samples. The optimum formulation was determined as 0.384% XG, 10% oil, and 3.04% POB. The samples prepared with the optimum formulation (POBLF-SD) were compared to low-fat (LF-SD), and high-fat (HF-SD) control salad dressing samples based on the rheological properties, emulsion stability, oxidative stability, zeta potential, and particle size. The oxidation kinetic parameters namely, IP, Ea, ΔS++, and ΔG++ showed that the oxidative stability of salad dressing samples could be improved by enriched by POB. The results of the present study demonstrated that POB could be considerably utilized as a natural fat substitute and stabilizer in salad dressing type emulsions.

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Salad dressing is a semi-solid oil/water (O/W) emulsion, mainly composed of vegetable oil, stabilizers, emulsifiers, acidifying agents, salt, and flavorings
Lai and Lin [28] reported that the low-fat salad dressing model emulsions showed the shear thinning flow behavior, which indicates a decrease in the viscosity values of salad dressing samples due to the increased shear rate
The main aim of this study was to investigate the potential use of POB as a fat substitute that can be used to obtain low-fat salad dressing with similar rheological, microstructural, recoverable properties, and emulsion and oxidative stability to high-fat salad dressing

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Salad dressing is a semi-solid oil/water (O/W) emulsion, mainly composed of vegetable oil (at least 30% by weight), stabilizers, emulsifiers, acidifying agents, salt, and flavorings. Consumers want to reduce their calorie intake. It can be challenging for the food industry to produce low-fat products that satisfy customers’ expectations for fatty sensations while avoiding substantial changes in texture, rheological, and organoleptic qualities such as poor texture, taste, appearance, stability, and mouthfeel [3]. When producing low-fat salad dressing, oil substitutes with different functions should be used to replace the oil in the basic formula to obtain a product with the same quality characteristics as the original full-fat food products [4]. Food products that contained less fat may be undesirable for consumers because fat contributes to the texture, appearance, flavor, and the enhancing emulsion stability of emulsions [5,6]. Cold-pressed oil industry by-products have recently been utilized as fat substitutes [7,8,9]

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