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The impact of water content and mixing time on the linear and non-linear rheology of wheat flour dough

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© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The viscoelastic properties of wheat flour dough are known to be very sensitive to small changes in water content and mixing time. In this study the simple scaling law originally proposed by Hibberd (1970) [Rheol. Acta 9, 497-500] to capture the water dependency of the dynamic moduli in small amplitude oscillatory shear, was also applied to creep-recovery shear tests and extensional tests. The scaling law turns out to be valid not only in the linear region, but to a certain extent also in the non-linear region. At sufficiently high water levels, a ‘free’ water phase exists in dough, which attenuates the starch-starch and gluten-starch interactions. Dough characterisation after different mixing times shows that overmixing may cause a disaggregation or even depolymerisation of the gluten network. The network breakdown, as well as the subsequent (partial) recovery, are clearly reflected in the value of the strain-hardening index, for which a maximum is reached at a mixing time close to the optimum as determined with the Mixograph. Finally, the gluten proteins turn out to be much less susceptible to overmixing in an oxygen-lean environment, which demonstrates the significant role of oxygen in the degradation process.
Tijdschrift: Food Biophysics
ISSN: 1557-1858
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Pagina's: 151 - 163
Jaar van publicatie:2017
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BOF-publication weight:1
CSS-citation score:2
Auteurs:International
Authors from:Higher Education
Toegankelijkheid:Open