Dough Mixing Time Research Articles

Effect of isomaltodextrin on dough rheology and bread quality

SummaryIsomaltodextrin (IMD) is a novel highly branched α‐glucan ingredient that has potential applications in foods as a promising source of dietary fibre. In this study, we assessed the incorporation of IMD in baked products and its effect on dough rheology and physico‐textural characteristics of wheat breads. IMD was added to wheat flour to reach the US FDA level of ‘good’ source of fibre (10% IMD). Use of the straight‐dough method with IMD and regular dough mixing time (8 min) resulted in less elastic doughs and resulting breads displayed lower cohesiveness, springiness and chewiness compared to the control bread. A modified straight‐dough method, with longer mixing time (36 min) and adjusted water level (70%), and a sponge‐and‐dough method were used to allow gluten structure to more fully hydrate and develop. With IMD addition, the modified straight‐dough (36 min dough mixing time) and sponge‐and‐dough methods yielded enhanced dough elasticity compared to the original straight‐dough method. Breadmaking methods were identified (improved straight‐dough and sponge‐and‐dough) whereby IMD could be added at a 'good source' of fibre level with loaf appearance and texture similar to breads without IMD.

Clean Label in Bread.

Bread is considered a staple food worldwide, and therefore there is much interest in research around the topic. The bread industry is usually looking for ways to improve its formulations. Therefore, other ingredients such as dough conditioners, crumb softeners, emulsifiers, and surfactants can be added to enhance bread quality. These ingredients perform functions such as helping standardize processes in the industry, reducing dough-mixing time, increasing water absorption, improving bread quality, and extending its shelf life. Consumers are concerned about the effect of these ingredients on their health, and this has increased the popularity of clean-label bread formulations. A clean label generally indicates that a product is free of chemical additives, has an ingredient list that is easy to understand, has undergone natural or limited processing, and/or is organic and free of additives or preservatives. However, there is no scientific definition of the term “clean label.” Researchers have focused on these clean-label initiatives to replace dough strengtheners and preservatives in bread formulations and give consumers what they perceive as a healthier product.

Protein fortification of wheat bread using dry fractionated chickpea protein-enriched fraction or its sourdough

Chickpea protein-enriched ingredients were prepared by combining dry milling, air classification, and optionally solid-state fermentation. The fermentation was carried out with the autochthonous LAB strain Pediococcus acidilactici to reduce the level of antinutritional factors. A protein-enriched chickpea fraction and its sourdough were used to partially replace wheat flour with 20%–30% w/w in wheat bread. The protein content of bread increased by 38.5% on dry basis with a 30% w/w replacement. As the substitution level increased from 0% to 20% and 30%, a longer dough mixing time was required, the specific volume of the bread decreased, and the crumb structure became denser. The levels of raffinose, stachyose, and verbascose in the sourdough bread were reduced by 75.4%, 97.6%, and 90.0% compared to the unfermented bread, respectively. With sourdough addition the crust showed less browning and exhibited a better microbiological stability compared to that of the other breads.

Contribution to Breadmaking Performance of Two Different HMW Glutenin 1Ay Alleles Expressed in Hexaploid Wheat.

Two expressed alleles of the 1Ay high-molecular-weight glutenin subunit (HMW-GS), 1Ay21* and 1AyT1, previously introduced in durum and bread wheat, were separately introgressed into the Australian bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cv. Livingston. The developed lines had different allelic compositions compared to that of the parental cultivar (1Ax1), having either 1Ax21+1Ay21* or 1Ax1+1AyT1 at the Glu-A1 locus. Since 1Ax21 and 1Ax1 are known to have the same effects on quality, differences observed between the two sets of the developed lines are attributed to the two introgressed Ay genes. Yield and agronomic performance of the lines were evaluated in the field, and the protein, dough, and baking quality attributes were evaluated by large-scale quality testing. Results demonstrated that the subunit 1Ay21* increased unextractable polymeric protein by up to 14.3% and improved bread loaf volume by up to 9.2%. On the other hand, subunit 1AyT1 increased total grain protein by up to 9% along with dough elasticity. Furthermore, milling extraction was higher, and flour ash was lower in the 1Ay21* lines compared to the lines integrating 1AyT1. Both sets of the 1Ay introgression lines reduced dough-mixing time compared to the recurrent parent Livingston. The results also showed that 1Ay21* had a higher potential to improve the baking quality than 1AyT1 under the Livingston genetic background. Both alleles showed the potential to be utilized in breeding programs to improve the breadmaking quality.

The mesoscopic structure in wheat flour dough development

The Farinograph time-to-peak is an important wheat flour quality parameter. It is well-established that insoluble glutenins correlate with the strength of the gluten network and dough mixing time. To learn more about the physical changes at the mesoscopic level, dough samples were prepared in the Farinograph for study with diffusion wave spectroscopy. It was confirmed that a space-filling network was formed by wheat gluten proteins (mainly glutenin). At peak development (9.0 min) it was shown that the starch granules were confined in the gluten network. After the time-to-peak, dough resistance weakened, showing an increase of the starch granule movement. Kneading disrupts insoluble glutenin particles, the disrupted glutenin becomes part of the Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (SDS)-extractable proteins. Both soluble and insoluble wheat protein extracts have been characterized by light scattering techniques. The results derived from light scattering of the wheat protein fractions: particle radii, apparent molar mass and geometrical shapes, suggests that the disrupted glutenin aggregate shape and glutenin size heterogeneity could be more important for gluten network bulk consistency, connectivity and resistance at dough peak, than the apparent molar mass of the solubilized glutenins, reaching a maximum after dough peak.

Effect of processing parameters and principal ingredients on quality of sugar snap cookies: a response surface approach.

Effects of processing parameters such as creaming time, dough mixing time, cookie thickness, baking temperature, time and principal ingredients viz. sugar, fat and water on quality of sugar snap cookies were investigated using the Response Surface Methodology. Shorter mixing time (100s) along with higher creaming time (400s) was desirable for producing softer cookies with tender bite and higher spread factor. Cookie baked at 190°C had superior quality in terms of hardness and spread factor as compared with those baked either at lower or at higher temperature. At lower baking temperature, hardness of cookie increased as the baking time was decreased below 14min. Hardness also increased significantly with increase in water content at all levels of sugar concentration in the formula. Optimum cookie quality was obtained with creaming time of 400s and mixing time 100s to make cookie dough containing 59.65% sugar, 46.68% fat and 14% water. Cookie thickness 11mm, baking temperature 190°C and baking time of 16min 30s resulted in best cookies.

Effects of dough mixing time before adding konjac glucomannan on the quality of noodles.

In this study, effects of 5% konjac glucomannan (KGM) blended with low-protein flour at different dough mixing duration on the properties of dough and noodles were investigated. To prepare the KGM noodle samples, 5% KGM was added after low-protein flour mixed with water for 0, 2 and 4min, respectively. The three samples above were defined as T0 KGM, T2 KGM and T4 KGM noodle samples, respectively. The results revealed that the elastic modulus (G') and viscous modulus (G″) of dough both increased with extending dough mixing time before adding KGM. T4 KGM samples showed the least cooking loss. Textural properties including hardness, cohesiveness and tensile strength of KGM noodles had a tendency to increase with a longer dough mixing time before adding KGM. Microstructure of dough and noodles confirmed that a longer dough mixing time before adding KGM made microstructure more compact with a thickened gluten matrix. The sensory quality of the T2 KGM and T4 KGM samples was better than that of the T0 KGM samples.

Optimization of textural properties of noodles with soluble fiber, dough mixing time and different water levels

Partially hydrolyzed guar gum as soluble fiber source has been investigated for fiber fortified noodles with health benefits. The study investigated the effect of soluble fiber level (1–5 g/100 g of flour), water level (30–40 ml/100 g of flour) and mixing time (2–6 min) on textural properties such as hardness, adhesiveness, cohesiveness, chewiness and resilience. The addition of soluble fiber in flour for noodles making was found to have a significant effect on all the hardness, adhesiveness, cohesiveness, chewiness and resilience whereas water level and mixing time showed significant effect on hardness, adhesiveness and cohesiveness of noodles. The optimized values for soluble fiber level, water level and mixing time were 3.4 g/100 g of flour, 36.0 ml/100 g of flour and 5 min, respectively. Results revealed that fortification of noodles with PHGG (3.4%) increased the soluble fiber content to 3.62% as compared to control noodles (1.07%).

Bran Hydration and Physical Treatments Improve the Bread-Baking Quality of Whole Grain Wheat Flour

Fine and coarse bran particles of a hard red and a hard white wheat were used to study the influences of bran hydration and physical treatments such as autoclaving and freezing, as well as their combinations, on the dough properties and bread-baking quality of whole grain wheat flour (WWF). For both hard red and hard white wheat, WWF containing bran prehydrated to 60% moisture content exhibited higher dough water absorption and longer dough mixing time, and it produced bread with a larger loaf volume and lower crumb firmness at zero and seven days of storage than the corresponding WWF containing bran without prior hydration. Hard red and hard white WWF containing bran preautoclaved at 121°C for 2 h and hydrated to various moisture levels (20–60%) produced bread with a loaf volume comparable to that produced by the corresponding WWF containing nonautoclaved bran of 60% moisture content, suggesting that autoclaving bran could substitute for bran hydration to improve the bread-baking quality of WWF. The bran...

The effects of bread‐making process factors on Australian sweet lupin‐wheat bread quality characteristics

SummaryFactorial experimental design was used to investigate the effects of: sponge proofing time (min), sponge and dough mixing time (min), final proofing time (min), final proofing temperature (°C) and baking time (min) on Australian sweet lupin‐wheat bread physical attributes. Factorial models show that bread specific volume was positively associated with sponge and dough mixing time (P = 0.01) and baking time (P = 0.02). Crumb area was positively associated (P = 0.01) with sponge and dough mixing time. Final proofing time positively influenced cell wall thickness (P < 0.01) and cell diameter (P < 0.01) but negatively affected number of cells (P < 0.01). Cell diameter was positively associated with baking time (P = 0.04), whilst number of cells was negatively influenced by sponge and dough mixing time (P = 0.01). Instrumental springiness was positively associated with sponge and dough mixing time (P = 0.02). Sponge and dough mixing and baking times were the two most significant process parameters affecting the bread physical quality and hence should be optimised.

Bran Characteristics and Bread‐Baking Quality of Whole Grain Wheat Flour

ABSTRACTVariations in physical and compositional bran characteristics among different sources and classes of wheat and their association with bread‐baking quality of whole grain wheat flour (WWF) were investigated with bran obtained from Quadrumat milling of 12 U.S. wheat varieties and Bühler milling of six Korean wheat varieties. Bran was characterized for composition including protein, fat, ash, dietary fiber, phenolics, and phytate. U.S. soft and club wheat brans were lower in insoluble dietary fiber (IDF) and phytate content (40.7–44.7% and 10.3–17.1 mg of phytate/g of bran, respectively) compared with U.S. hard wheat bran (46.0–51.3% and 16.5–22.2 mg of phytate/g of bran, respectively). Bran of various wheat varieties was blended with a hard red spring wheat flour at a ratio of 1:4 to prepare WWFs for determination of dough properties and bread‐baking quality. WWFs with U.S. hard wheat bran generally exhibited higher dough water absorption and longer dough mixing time, and they produced smaller loaf volume of bread than WWFs of U.S. soft and club wheat bran. WWFs of two U.S. hard wheat varieties (ID3735 and Scarlet) produced much smaller loaves of bread (<573 mL) than those of other U.S. hard wheat varieties (>625 mL). IDF content, phytate content, and water retention capacity of bran exhibited significant relationships with loaf volume of WWF bread, whereas no relationship was observed between protein content of bran and loaf volume of bread. It appears that U.S. soft and club wheat bran, probably owing to relatively low IDF and phytate contents, has smaller negative effects on mixing properties of WWF dough and loaf volume of bread than U.S. hard wheat bran.

Influence of Bran Particle Size on Bread‐Baking Quality of Whole Grain Wheat Flour and Starch Retrogradation

ABSTRACTThe influence of bran particle size on bread‐baking quality of whole grain wheat flour (WWF) and starch retrogradation was studied. Higher water absorption of dough prepared from WWF with added gluten to attain 18% protein was observed for WWFs of fine bran than those of coarse bran, whereas no significant difference in dough mixing time was detected for WWFs of varying bran particle size. The effects of bran particle size on loaf volume of WWF bread and crumb firmness during storage were more evident in hard white wheat than in hard red wheat. A greater degree of starch retrogradation in bread crumb stored for seven days at 4°C was observed in WWFs of fine bran than those of coarse bran. The gels prepared from starch–fine bran blends were harder than those prepared from starch–unground bran blends when stored for one and seven days at 4°C. Furthermore, a greater degree of starch retrogradation was observed in gelatinized starch containing fine bran than that containing unground bran after storage for seven days at 4°C. It is probable that finely ground bran takes away more water from gelatinized starch than coarsely ground bran, increasing the extent of starch retrogradation in bread and gels during storage.

Xylanolytic modification in wheat flour and its effect on dough rheological characteristics and bread quality attributes

Effects of various xylanase treatments applied at different stages of bread making process on dough rheological characteristics and bread quality attributes were investigated. Different doses (200, 400, 600, 800, and 1000 IU) of purified enzyme were applied at two stages (tempering and mixing). In milling and dough making processes, both types of flour (subjected to enzyme treatment during tempering and flour mixing) exhibited decreasing trend in water absorption, dough development time, dough stability, softening of dough, dough mixing time, viscosity peak, set back, and increasing tendency in peak height and pasting temperature. Treatments during tempering resulted in more significant effects as compared to applications during flour mixing. The dough rising during proofing resulted in enhancement from 137±3.21% (control) to maximum value (192.33±2.90%), when 600 IU of xylanases were applied to 1 kg of wheat grains during tempering. The bread sensory attributes also exhibited significant improvement in response to various doses of purified enzymes.

Starch Pasting and Textural Attributes of Elbow Macaroni as Impacted by Dough Moisture, Dough Mixing Time, and Macaroni Cooking Time

ABSTRACT The effects of dough moisture, mixing time, and cooking time on uncooked and cooked elbow macaroni by means of starch pasting and macaroni textural characteristics were investigated. In conventional elbow macaroni production, cooking time was found to have significant contributions to cooked macaroni starch pasting properties, indicating that degree of starch cook dependent on cooking time was the main influence on cooked macaroni starch pasting phenomena. Dough moisture also showed some significant (P < 0.05) relationships with cooked macaroni starch pasting properties; however, mixing time did not show significant effect. Cooked macaroni starch pasting properties showed significantly (P < 0.05) high correlations with cooked macaroni firmness and stickiness. Cooking time was the only major variable contributing to variations in cooked elbow macaroni starch and consequently in pasting and texture characteristics. Cooking time was highly related to firmness and stickiness of cooked elbow macaroni ...

Response Surface Optimization of Barbari Bread-Making Process Variables: Interrelationship of Texture, Image and Organoleptic Characteristics; Using Image Analysis for Quality and Shelf Life Prediction

Digital image processing technique is a useful tool for bread texture analysis. In the current study, to improve bread features (cell wall thickness, fractal dimension, circularity, solidity, crust lightness, crumb lightness, mean cell area [MCA], cell count and density, porosity, specific loaf volume [SLV], hardness and sensory attributes), final proofing time (FPT), dough mixing time in low (MTLS; 63 rpm) and high speed (MTHS; 180 rpm) were considered as the independent variables. Result showed rising FPT up to 60 min led to significant (P ≤ 0.05) enhancement of SLV and MCA up to 4.62 cm3/g and 4.63 mm2, respectively, and decrease in crust lightness, crumb lightness and hardness. Cell count and density were strongly affected by MTHS. Crust lightness may be presumably considered as an indicator for hardness (r = 0.767) and SLV (r = −0.843) prediction. The optimized conditions were 60-min FPT, 5.30-min MTLS and 8.05-min MTHS, which can be applied for large-scale production of bread. Practical Applications Generally, analysis of changes in quality, shelf life and sensory features of bread during bread-making process is time consuming. This research shows that survey of these properties can be carried out in quick time with correlation between image attributes and other characteristics. Furthermore, representative-optimized conditions are useful for improvement of bread quality factors.

Bread-Making Process Optimization: Staling Kinetics, Relationship of Batter Rheology, Shelf Life, Quality and Sensory Characteristics of Barbari Bread

Quality improvement of baked products is becoming an awareness for a wide range of manufacturers and consumers. In the current study, optimization of final proofing time, FPT, (20–60 min), dough mixing time in low speed, MTLS, (63 rpm) and in high speed, MTHS, (180 rpm) for 2.05–8.05 min based on bread moisture content, water activity, specific volume, sensory quality factor, hardness, dough adhesiveness, cohesiveness, hardness, chewiness, stickiness, resilience features using response surface method was designed. Results indicated that a higher value of quality and sensory features as well as dough cohesiveness was achieved by FPT level. Increasing MTLS led to increase in dough adhesiveness, hardness, chewiness and bread hardness. Correlation results revealed that specific volume may be considered for bread hardness (r = −0.75) and dough stickiness (r = −0.81) prediction. The suitable mathematical model for staling kinetics was power model. The optimization results were 56.84-min FPT, 2.05-min MTLS and 7.69-min MTHS, and are useful for bread quality improvement. Practical Application This work presents a useful approach for shelf life, quality and sensory improvement of bread. Furthermore, the correlation results indicated that some bread simple features can be applied for prediction of bread shelf life and some batter attributes and can be used for study of dough and bread behavior.

Impact of mixing time and sodium stearoyl lactylate on gluten polymerization during baking of wheat flour dough

The impact of differences in dough transient gluten network on gluten cross-linking during baking is insufficiently understood. We varied dough mixing times and/or added sodium stearoyl lactylate (SSL; 1.0% on flour dry matter basis) to the recipe and studied the effect on subsequent gluten polymerization during heating. The level of proteins extractable in sodium dodecyl sulfate containing media was fitted using first order kinetics. The extent and rate of gluten polymerization were lower when mixing for 8min than when mixing for 2min. This effect was even more outspoken in the presence of SSL. The present observations were explained as resulting from less gliadin incorporation in the polymer gluten network and from interaction of SSL with the gluten proteins. Finally, a higher degree of gluten polymerization during baking increased the firmness of the baked products.

Effect of Process Modifications in Two Cycles of Dough Mixing on Physical Properties of Wheat Bread Baked from Weak Flour

Common availability of dough improvers permits the production of bread of good quality, but only modifications of the process may be used for the production of natural products. Dough from weak flour, after application of certain treatments, displays poorer baking properties; therefore, in our study, it is proposed to apply slow-speed mixing in two cycles. In the literature, there is a lack of comparisons of results of baking with the straight dough method (one-cycle mixing) with modified methods including the application of two equal cycles of dough mixing and two “incomplete” cycles, the first of which lasts twice as long as the second one [partial two-cycle mixing (PTCM)]. This study involved the determination of the quality properties of bread (loaf volume, specific weight, crust thickness, crumb whiteness, crumb hardness index, and crumb heterogeneity index) under the effect of process modifications, analyzing the effect of dough mixing time and resting time between the mixing cycles. The study included also regression equations describing the physical properties of bread. Based on the tests performed, it was noted that in the case of flour characterized by poor baking quality, the process effectiveness can be enhanced through the application of two incomplete mixing cycles (PTCM), with dough resting time in the range of 10–20 min. This treatment resulted breads with significantly greater loaf volume, lower specific weight, lower whiteness index, and hardness compared to breads baked using the straight dough method. It is not recommended to use two equal duration cycles of dough mixing.

Optimization of Dough Mixing Time and Mixing Speed To Improve Dough Rheology and Quality of Barbari Bread Using Response Surface Methodology

Efforts to improve the quality of bakery products are increasing every day. Several techniques were developed for this purpose. In this study the possibility of betterment and optimization of quality properties of dough and Barbari bread with emphasis on process variables using rotatable response surface methodology were investigated. The independent process variables for baking process were dough mixing time at low speed (MTLS) (63 rpm) and high speed (MTHS) (180 rpm) from 2 to 8 min and dependent process variables were dough adhesiveness, dough cohesiveness, dough hardness, dough resilience, dough stickiness and specific volume of Barbari bread. Statistical results showed that all the process variables have a significant effect on all the responses. The linear terms of MTHS was the most effective factor on dough stickiness and dough resilience. Quadratic terms of MTHS and MTLS were the most effective factor on dough cohesiveness and dough hardness and specific volume of Barbari bread, respectively. Interaction terms of process variables have significant effect (p <0.05) on dough adhesiveness. Optimization showed that the best dough rheology and quality of Barbari bread were achieved when the MTHS and MTLS were 7.17 and 2 min, respectively. Keywords: Optimization, Response surface methodology, Quality, Processing variation, Barbari bread, Dough mixing

Characterization of CIMMYT bread wheats for high- and low-molecular weight glutenin subunits and other quality-related genes with SDS-PAGE, RP-HPLC and molecular markers

Two hundred and seventy-three CIMMYT bread wheat cultivars and advanced lines grown under irrigated conditions in Mexico during the 2005-06 Yaqui crop cycle were characterized for quality-related genetic traits using gene-specific markers for some high- and low-molecular-weight glutenin subunit (HMW-GS and LMW-GS) genes, polyphenol oxidase (PPO), phytoene synthase (PSY), and waxy genes. Of them, 142 were analyzed for quality parameters including SDS sedimentation volume (SDS-SV), dough mixing time, and Alveograph parameters, and for HMW-GS and LMW-GS compositions using sodium-dodecyl-sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC). For the Ppo-A1 locus tested with the marker PPO18, the frequencies of alleles Ppo-A1a and Ppo-A1b were 79.1 and 20.2%, respectively, and no PCR fragment was amplified in 2 lines (0.73%), whereas 227 lines (83.2%) contained the allele Ppo-D1a and 46 lines (16.8%) had Ppo-D1b detected by markers PPO16 and PPO29. For the marker YP7A, 142 lines (52.0%) were assumed to have the allele Psy-A1a and 131 lines (48.0%) contained the allele Psy-A1b. In the case of the marker YP7B for the gene Psy-B1, the alleles Psy-B1a and Psy-B1b were detected in 155 (56.8%) and 43 (15.8%) lines, respectively, and 75 (27.4%) lines possessed the allele Psy-B1d detected by the marker YP7B-3. All 273 lines contained the alleles Wx-A1a and Wx-D1a as determined by markers MAG264 and MAG269, respectively. Using the marker Wx-B1, 204 lines (74.7%) were presumed to have the Wx-B1a allele and 69 (25.3%) possessed Wx-B1b. The over-expressing allele of Bx7 OE and subunit By8*, not clearly seen with SDS-PAGE, were detected by RP-HPLC. The numbers of lines with subunits Ax2*, By8, By9, Bx17, Bx20, Dx5, and Glu-B3j were 90, 16, 57, 5, 46, 118, and 33, respectively, in the 142 lines analyzed with molecular markers, and were consistent with the results obtained by SDS-PAGE, except for one line with the 1A.1R translocation. Subunits Ax1 and Ax2* at the Glu-A1 locus showed significantly better effects on all quality parameters than subunit Null. Subunits 5 + 10 gave significantly better effects for all parameters. Subunit Glu-A3b showed more positive effects than its alternative alleles on SDS-SV and SDS-sedimentation volume/protein content index (SPI). The allele Glu-B3g showed the best effect on SDS-SV and Alveograph W, whereas Glu-B3j, associated with the 1B.1R translocation, exhibited a strongly negative effect on all quality parameters.