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Use of triticale flours in cracker-making

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In general, triticale is not a good raw material for bread making. However, some varieties produce flours of good quality for cookie production. It is a well-known fact that cracker quality depends on the flour used for cracker production. All over the world, a blend of hard and soft wheat is used; however, the use of soft flour is recommended. Since additional soft wheat cultivation is not allowed in Argentina, triticale represents a good alternative for cracker production. In the present study 15 triticale cultivars and a flour of optimum cracker quality were used to produce crackers in order to establish criteria to evaluate flour quality in cracker-making. The factors that determine cracker quality, as well as the relationships between different quality parameters were investigated. Electrophoretic patterns of triticale proteins extracted from flours were determined. Five cultivars produced crackers of similar quality to that of standard flour of industrial good quality. A protein band with a 110 kDa molecular mass influenced flour quality, measured as the ratio of the mean between weight and length, WL and the height of ten crackers (H 10), WL/H 10, while other flour constituents such as pentosans, soluble proteins and damaged starch could affect its weight.

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The authors would like to thank Martin Morcillo for the baking test as well as the Laboratorio de Idiomas (FCA-UNC) for providing useful suggestions to improve the English in this paper and the Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnología de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (SECyT) for financial support.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CC 509, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina

    Gabriela T. Pérez, Alberto E. León, Pablo D. Ribotta, Alicia Aguirre & Oscar J. Rubiolo

  2. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Criotecnología de Alimentos (CONICET, UNLP), calle 47 y 116 CC 553, 1900, La Plata, Argentina

    María C. Añón

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Pérez, G.T., León, A.E., Ribotta, P.D. et al. Use of triticale flours in cracker-making. Eur Food Res Technol 217, 134–137 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00217-003-0729-9

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