Abstract
Gluten-related disorders, including celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity, are growing worldwide. The only treatment for both disorders is a lifelong gluten-free diet. However, gluten-free foods are generally poorer in nutrients, less healthy, and have a high cost. Sorghum and cowpea are gluten-free grains with high levels of phenolic compounds (PC) and a low cost. Their phenolic profile is structurally different; thus, the blend of both can provide synergistic/complementary health benefits to the final product. This study analyzed the effect of baking process and the blend of cowpea flour (CP) and sorghum bran (SB) on the levels of PC, resistant starch (RS), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), and antioxidant capacity (AC) of gluten-free cookies. Eleven rice or cowpea cookie formulations were made with or without white sorghum bran (WSB) or black sorghum bran (BSB). Baking increased the extractability of PC, AC, and the NDF of almost all formulations. The PC and AC were, respectively, about twice and 3–5 times higher in cookies containing BSB compared to the others. There was a minor effect of WSB on the PC and AC. Although there were losses, the retention of RS of cookies after the baking process was between 49.8 and 92.7%. Sorghum bran has excellent potential for use as a functional ingredient in healthy food production. The combined CP and SB have great potential to improve the nutritional and functional properties of gluten-free products, especially the PC, RS, and NDF contents.
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Abbreviations
- ABTS:
-
2,2’-Azinobis- (3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid)
- AC:
-
Antioxidant capacity
- BSB:
-
Black (tannin) sorghum bran
- CD:
-
Celiac disease
- CP:
-
Cowpea flour
- db:
-
Dry basis
- GAE:
-
Gallic acid equivalents
- NCGS:
-
Non-celiac gluten sensitivity
- NDF:
-
Neutral detergent fiber
- ORAC:
-
Oxygen radical absorbing capacity
- PC:
-
Phenolic compounds
- Ri:
-
Rice flour
- RS:
-
Resistant starch
- SB:
-
Sorghum bran
- TE:
-
Trolox equivalents
- WSB:
-
White (tannin-free) sorghum bran
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The authors would like to acknowledge the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária – Embrapa (Brazil) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais – FAPEMIG (Brazil) for the financial support and to Dr. Joseph Awika at Texas A&M University, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences (USA) for providing laboratories for sample formulation and chemical analysis.
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Valéria Aparecida Vieira Queiroz: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. Halef Dizlek: Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing. Frederico Augusto Ribeiro de Barros: Writing – review & editing. Flávio Dessaune Tardin: Formal analysis. José Edson Fontes Figueiredo: Writing – review & editing. Joseph M. Awika: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing.
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Queiroz, V.A.V., Dizlek, H., de Barros, F.A.R. et al. Baking Process Effects and Combined Cowpea Flour and Sorghum Bran on Functional Properties of Gluten-Free Cookies. Plant Foods Hum Nutr 77, 552–559 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11130-022-01002-0
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