INDUSTRIE ALIMENTARI Vol. 61 - MARCH 2022
CONTENTS
Study of new strategies to design breakfast cereal with high nutritional and hedonic value
T. De Pilli
This research aimed to design new breakfast cereals with good sensorial properties and balanced nutritional characteristics. The new approach involved a deep investigation of commercial breakfast cereals' nutritional and sensory characteristics to find a correlation between commercial messages and nutritional labels. This investigation is essential to find an eventual disagreement between these aspects and highlight misleading publicity. Also, the panel tests on commercial breakfast cereals with different nutritional compositions were conducted to understand consumer preferences. Following the optimisation of formula and processing was carried out to obtain balanced and hedonic breakfast cereals. The investigation on commercial breakfast cereals highlighted the discrepancy between the commercial message and the nutritional label reported on the packet. Sensory evaluation of experimental extrudates showed that the samples more appreciated by tasters were characterised by low fat, sugar, and calories. These results were obtained thanks to a suitable optimisation of the formula and processing parameters.
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