TITLE:
Chemical, Starch Digestibility and Sensory Characteristics of Durum Wheat/Unripe Whole Banana Flour Blends for Spaghetti Formulation
AUTHORS:
Perla Osorio-Díaz, José J. Islas-Hernández, Edith Agama-Acevedo, Sandra L. Rodríguez-Ambriz, María E. Sánchez-Pardo, Luis A. Bello-Pérez
KEYWORDS:
Starch; Digestibility; Banana; Spaghetti; Indigestible Fractio
JOURNAL NAME:
Food and Nutrition Sciences,
Vol.5 No.3,
January
21,
2014
ABSTRACT: Excess weight and obesity are serious public
health problems, which should be addressed through encouraging the consumption
of foods with high amount of low digestible carbohydrates. The objective of
this study was to put together spaghetti that blends unripe banana whole flour
(UBWF) and durum wheat of different levels and to evaluate their chemical
composition, starch digestibility and sensory characteristics. Spaghetti with
15%, 30%, and 45% of UBWF and a control spaghetti (100%
durum wheat flour) were put together. The protein content decreased (10.42% to 7.74%) as the UBWF level was increased in the
composite, while the amount of ash (0.87% to 1.54%) and
total starch (70.24% to 73.71%)
increased. Spaghetti with 15% and 45% of
UBWF had similar available starch content. The addition of UBWF increased the
resistant starch content from 1.98% to 10.91%,
and consequently the indigestible starch fraction (14.00% to 27.29%). Spaghetti with 30% of UBWF had good
consumer acceptability and was ranked higher than the control sample.