Bread staling

Description

The role of starch, gluten, lipids, water, and other components in bread staling is a subject of continual study using advanced analytical methodologies and sophisticated multidisciplinary approaches. Significant recent progress has been made in the fundamental understanding of the events leading to bread staling. Bread Staling presents current knowledge from a physico-chemical perspective, with the intent of providing applicable methods to improve product shelf-life and to design new and longer-lasting baked goods. The contributors detail how to solve this food problem by using polymer science, material research, and molecular spectroscopy, which is a new way to approach a centuries-old problem. This approach can aid manufacturers in developing anti-staling formulations for bread and other baked products. The non-traditional areas of research presented in this book, such as the glassy-rubbery transition and its relevance to bread staling, provide crucial information for scientists and engineers Content: Computer generated contents: Chapt. 1. Mechanism of staling: an overview -- chapt. 2. Plasticization: the softening of materials -- chapt. 3. Macromolecular aspects of bread staling -- chapt. 4. An interpretation of the rheological behavior of wheat flour dough based on fundamental tests -- chapt. 5. Instrumental techniques used in bread staling analysis -- chapt. 6. Nuclear magnetic resonance techniques -- chapt. 7. Thermo-mechanical behavior of concentrated starch-based products -- chapt. 8. Bread microstructure -- chapt. 9. Modeling the kinetics of starch retrogradation.