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STUDY OF TEXTURE AND GLASS TRANSITION OF FRENCH FRIED POTATOES PRETREATED WITH SOAKING SOLUTIONS
Author(s) -
KASAHARA ISMAEL,
OSORIO FERNANDO,
MOYANO PEDRO,
PIZARRO GUILLERMO,
BELTRAN JEANETTE
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of food processing and preservation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.511
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1745-4549
pISSN - 0145-8892
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-4549.2002.tb00482.x
Subject(s) - sugar , glass transition , plasticizer , chemistry , food science , starch , starch gelatinization , sodium , texture (cosmology) , polymer , organic chemistry , artificial intelligence , computer science , image (mathematics)
The objective of this work was to study the effects of soaking pretreatments, frying time and temperature, and oil content on texture and glass transition properties of French fried potatoes. Sodium chloride and total sugar contents showed a significant difference (P<0.05) between soaked samples and an unsoaked control. Texture parameters such as rigidity, work and maximum force showed that, up to 2 min offrying, these values decreased. Thereafter, there was a significant increase in these values as frying time increased beyond 3 min as confirmed by a Taguchi statistical analysis. Glass transition temperature (Tg) was higher at the crust than in the strip center for all products and a control sample. This may have been due not only to differences in water content, but also dependent on the presence of other molecules that may have acted as plasticizers. As expected, the extent of starch gelatinization was greater at the crust for all treatments.