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. 2020 Nov 20;9(11):1706. doi: 10.3390/foods9111706

Table 6.

Bread quality characteristics of control wheat bread and faba bean bread formulations.

Variable CWB DFB DFSDB PRB PRSDB
pH of dough 5.76 ± 0.04 a 5.79 ± 0.07 a 5.47 ± 0.02 b 5.77 ± 0.02 a 5.69 ± 0.06 a
Bake loss [%] 12.0 ± 0.7 b 11.4 ± 0.5 c 12.8 ± 0.9 a 10.6 ± 0.9 d 12.2 ± 0.9 b
Specific volume (SV) [ml/g] 3.09 ± 0.12 a 2.42 ± 0.09 d 2.96 ± 0.10 b 2.16 ± 0.07 e 2.58 ± 0.09 c
Hardness day 0 [N] 6.31 ± 1.01 e 15.65 ± 1.51 b 8.02 ± 1.01 d 18.50 ± 1.4 a 11.44 ± 1.78 c
Hardness day 2 [N] 13.04 ± 1.46 d 30.41 ± 4.13 b 14.79 ± 1.48 d 33.51 ± 2.83 a 19.17 ± 2.26 c
Hardness day 5 [N] 20.65 ± 2.57 e 39.33 ± 3.26 b 22.66 ± 2.59 d 44.53 ± 4.99 a 28.04 ± 2.84 c
Staling rate [ΔN/d] 2.31 ± 0.36 a 1.53 ± 0.25 c 1.86 ± 0.43 b 1.42 ± 0.31 c 1.49 ± 0.34 c
Number of cells 1527 ± 95 a 1338 ± 94 b 1243 ± 80 bc 1454 ± 123 a 1144 ± 129 c
Cell area [%] 48.4 ± 1.1 a 46.9 ± 1.0 b 49.6 ± 1.0 a 46.3 ± 1.6 b 49.4 ± 1.0 a
Lightness of crumb (L *crumb) 76.9 ± 2.7 a 74.7 ± 2.0 b 71.5 ± 1.4 cd 73.2 ± 1.9 bc 70.6 ± 2.3 d
Lightness of crust (L *crust) 77.3 ± 2.6 a 70.5 ± 3.8 b 64.7 ± 2.5 cd 63.3 ± 5.0 c 61.7 ± 2.5 d

Means ± standard deviation with different lower case letters in the same row are significantly different at p < 0.05.