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Production of crispy bread snacks containing chicken meat and chicken meat powder

Chicken meat in two different forms (chicken meat and chicken meat powder) were added into white flour and whole wheat blend baguette bread formulations for protein enrichment and finally developing new and healthy snacks. The chicken meat and powder levels were 10% for white flour baguette, and 15% for whole wheat blend. The dried baguette samples were packaged under 100% N2, and physical, chemical, microbiological and sensorial properties were evaluated during 3 months of storage. Protein content of chicken meat powder added samples were found statistically higher than chicken meat added samples. Hardness of the snacks was significantly affected from type of chicken meat, such as values were higher for chicken meat added samples than chicken meat powder added samples. Lipid oxidation of the snacks was determined by TBA analysis, and TBA value for whole wheat mixture snack with 15% of chicken meat was the highest among all during storage. The highest overall acceptance score was obtained from white flour snack with 10% chicken meat. There was no coliform bacteria detected during storage and the results of yeast-mold count and aerobic plate count of snacks remained between the quantitative ranges.

Proteince zenginleştirilmiş İzmir gevreğinin kuruma davranışının incelenmesi

In this study, Izmir gevrek -highly consumed at the breakfasts- was enriched with dairy proteins by using dairy products (Izmir tulum cheese, milk powder and whey powder)at different levels and 5 mm thick disc-shaped sliced gevrek was dried at three different temperatures (140, 150 and 160°C) in a convection oven. The drying characteristics of snacks were examined with six different thin-layer drying models that are commonly used in literature. The Page model gave a better fit to experimental drying data and had the highest adjusted R-square with the lowest reduced chi-square and root mean square error values as compared to other models. The effective diffusion coefficient was calculated and the activation energy was derived from Arrhenius equation.