DESENVOLVIMENTO DE PRÉ-MISTURA COM PROPRIEDADE DE EXPANSÃO E BAIXA RETROGRADAÇÃO PARA APLICAÇÃO EM PRODUTOS PANIFICADOS LIVRES DE GLÚTEN

Abstract

The development of gluten free products is becoming increasingly important as the number of celiac people have increased. Cheese breads and sour cassava starch biscuits are examples of gluten free baked products widely consumed in Brazil, however, these products have problems related to starch retrogradation, in other words, a very rapid staling in the case of baked products and the cheese breads marketed as frozen dough are susceptible to release of water (syneresis). Thus, the objective of this study was to develop a anti-staling premix able to increase freeze-thaw stability of gluten free baked products (cheese bread and sour cassava starch biscuits) without interfere negatively on the expansion property of these products. Binary and ternary mixtures were prepared using native cassava starch and oxidized cassava starch ranging the type of gum (guar, locust, xanthan and carrageenan) and the concentration used (2, 4 and 6 %). Mixtures using the acid modified cassava starch instead of oxidized cassava starch were also tested, but in this case using only guar gum at concentrations of 2, 4 and 6 %. The mixtures were evaluated for freeze-thaw stability and expansion property and the results were compared with those obtained for sour cassava starch (PA) native cassava starch (N), oxidized cassava starch (O) and acid modified cassava starch (A). The binary and ternary mixtures with better results and samples PA, N and O were evaluated for technological properties (pasting properties, swelling power and solubility and paste clarity), thermal properties (Differential Scanning Calorimetry - DSC), structural properties (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy - FTIR) and crystalline properties (X-ray diffraction); moreover, cheese breads were prepared with these samples and the staling of these products was evaluated (hardness parameter in texturometer and crumb moisture content). The mixture made with the native cassava starch, oxidized cassava starch and guar gum at a concentration of 4 % (MNO+GG 4 %) showed the best results of syneresis (loss of 4,87; 7,79 and 11 % in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd freeze-thaw cycle, respectively) compared with the other samples and the low retrogradation of this sample was confirmed by DSC analysis (enthalpy of retrogradation was non-existent) and FTIR (sample separated from others by principal component analysis - PCA). The expansion property of MNO GG+4 % sample was high (> 10 mL.g-1) and the cheese breads developed with this sample had a later staling compared with other samples, with lower hardness after 24 and 30 h of storage (23.71 and 29.59 N, respectively) and a wetter crumb (38.8 and 37.07%, respectively). These results indicate the possibility of using the premix MNO+GG 4% in gluten free baked products in place of sour cassava starch and/or native cassava starch.