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. 2015 Jul 19;52(12):7954–7963. doi: 10.1007/s13197-015-1953-6

Table 4.

Rheological characterization of maize flours: parameters of Eqs. (5) and (6) for oscillatory shear modelling

Parameter YM200 WM200 PM200 WM500
 a´·10−3 (Pa s-b´) 105.2 ± 2.0b 51.9 ± 1.1a 65.9 ± 0.4a 375.6 ± 10.2c
 b´ 0.06 ± 0.01a 0.11 ± 0.01c 0.09 ± 0.01b 0.12 ± 0.01c
 R2 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99
G´´
 a´´·10−3 (Pa s-b´´) 14.6 ± 0.2b 7.8 ± 0.3a 9.0 ± 0.3a 69.2 ± 0.9c
 b´´ 0.09 ± 0.01a 0.19 ± 0.01b,c 0.18 ± 0.01b,c 0.19 ± 0.01c
 R2 0.95 0.99 0.96 0.99

Data are presented as means ± standard deviation

Data value with different superscript letters in rows are significantly different, P ≤ 0.05

yellow (YM), white (WM) and purple (PM) maize flour doughs