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Improved Peanut Flour for a Reduced‐Fat Peanut Butter Product
Author(s) -
Lima I.M.,
Guraya H.S.,
Champagne E.T.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of food science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1750-3841
pISSN - 0022-1147
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2621.2000.tb13600.x
Subject(s) - peanut oil , response surface methodology , particle size , food science , peanut butter , drum , chemistry , materials science , chromatography , mechanical engineering , raw material , organic chemistry , engineering
A commercial peanut flour (12% fat) was mixed with water (30% w/w), homogenized and drum‐dried in a double drum dryer. The drum clearance was adjusted to result in thin dried sheets which on milling resulted in a very fine, single banded particle size flour. The flour was no longer gritty and was used to dilute fat by mixing with full fat (52.5%) paste to obtain a 30% fat reduction in the peanut butter product. Response surface methodology, RSM, was used to optimize drum temperature (T), speed (S), and clearance (C) in order to minimize stickiness and hardness, maximizing oil separation and particle size. Based on surface responses and contour plots, optimum conditions were: T = 135 °C, S = 1 rpm and C = 0.33 mm. Optimum values predicted by RSM for peanut flour particle size, peanut butter stickiness, hardness, and oil separation were: 49.65 μm, 12347 N, 311.4 N and 6.87% respectively. Close agreement between experimental and predicted values was obtained.