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Making a hero out of pea proteins at PGPI
PGP International has a track record of innovation and a proactive focus on applications for high performing extruded products and right now pea proteins are proving to be a bit of a hero...
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Healthy snack alternatives: a new challenge for processors
Doug Baldwin, Vice President, Food and Industrial Products at Wenger Manufacturing Inc. discusses new trends in extruded snacks...
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Vetta launches High Fibre Pasta range in the UK
11 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Produced and crafted by Australian company Rinoldi, Vetta’s High Fibre pasta range provides consumers with a high-fibre option...
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Pasta extrusion: Precooked and gluten free products
23 April 2015 | By Dr Sajid Alavi, Department of Grain Science and Industry, Kansas State University
Pasta products such as spaghetti and macaroni are usually made from wheat semolina. Wheat has a unique property of forming an extensible, elastic and cohesive mass when mixed with water due to its gluten proteins, and this lends to pasta the desired strength, integrity of cooked product and low cooking…
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Pasta extrusion: Conversion of semolina into pasta
27 October 2014 | By Frank A. Manthey and Elena de la Peña, North Dakota State University
Formation of gluten-based dough requires the presence of gluten proteins, gliadin and glutenin, moisture, and energy. Gliadin and glutenin proteins are storage proteins that accumulate in wheat endosperm cells during grain filling. Gliadins are a heterogenous group of single chain proteins that are responsible for dough cohesiveness. Gliadin proteins can…
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Rheology as a design tool for novel food concepts
2 September 2014 | By Leonard M. C. Sagis and Elke Scholten, Physics and Physical Chemistry of Food, Wageningen University
The rheological properties of food products are very important in the production, preparation, and consumption of food. Rheological measurements are therefore a highly useful tool in the design of novel food concepts. Here we discuss the use of rheological techniques to develop and characterise pasta and noodle products, with high…
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Winning consumer preference via extrusion cooking of nutritious cereals
1 May 2014 | By Frédéric Robin, Christophe Dautremont and Hélène Chanvrier, Nestlé Product Technology Center
Extrusion cooking is extensively used by the food industry to deliver light and delightful cereal-based products. Improving the nutrition of extruded cereal products while maintaining consumer preference can be achieved by incorporating health-promoting ingredients. These nutritious food components have a significant impact on a product’s organoleptic properties and can lead…
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Pasta Processing: Pasta production
2 January 2014 | By Alexis Freier, Research & Development and Technical Services Manager, Dakota Growers Pasta Company
The quality of a pasta product is evaluated by dry appearance and cooked texture. ‘Good Pasta’ is defined as having uniform amber colour with an absence of black, brown or white spots, a smooth surface free of streaks or cracks, and a texture that when cooked is neither chewy nor…
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Ingedient functionality
19 June 2013 | By Eugenio Bortone, Senior Scientist, Extrusion Innovation Team, Frito-Lay North America
The extrusion process can involve simple formulations such as the ones used for snack foods consisting of simple starch or very complex formulations as the ones used in pet food diets which involve several ingredients. The latter are designed specifically to meet the nutritional requirements of the target species. In…
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Reducing fat and sodium in cheese
19 June 2013 | By Professor Donald J. McMahon, Western Dairy, Utah State University
Health regulators seek to reduce dietary fat intake and sodium intake by stipulating that cheeses should be made with lower fat and lower salt contents. However, both fat and salt contribute to cheese flavour, and fat especially impacts cheese appearance, texture and melting. Cheese is adversely affected by fat and…
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Extrusion of rice analogue
11 January 2013 | By Mian N Riaz, Head of Extrusion Technology Program, Food Protein R&D Center, Texas A&M University
Today, rice is one of the most important food crops in developing countries and it is considered staple food in many parts of the world. Rice is also becoming much more important in the United States, Europe, Asia and Middle East. However, concerns have been raised because it is high…
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Extrusion of precooked pasta
1 May 2012 | By Mian N. Riaz, Head Extrusion Technology Program, Food Protein R&D Center, Texas A&M University and Brian Plattner, Process Engineering Manager, Wenger Manufacturing Co
Pasta is a common source of carbohydrates in our diet today. Production and consumption of pasta products vary depending on the region of the world and culinary traditions within a society. Italy ranks as the highest consumer of pasta in the world at nearly 26 kilograms per capita, which is…
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DRIED PASTA: A global food
15 December 2010 | By Maria Ambrogina Pagani, Professor of Cereal Technology, University of Milan
Pasta, the Italian food par excellence, is one of the most interesting products obtained from wheat. Dried pasta has a long shelf-life before being cooked, thanks to its low water content and highly compact texture. Its macromolecules have exceptional hydrating capacities which enable it to increase its weight two-fold and…
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Extrusion of cereals
26 August 2010 | By Mian N. Riaz, Head of Extrusion Technology Program, Texas A&M University
The world cereal yield was 2,219 million tons in 2009, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation1. Cereal grains are grown all over the world and provide more food energy than any other type of crop, they are therefore staple crops. Cereals can be consumed in their natural…
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Pasta processing and final product characteristics
1 June 2009 | By Antonio Nespoli, Semolina Pasta Industrialisation Responsible, Barilla G e R. Fratelli SpA
Pasta is apparently a very simple food, with one ingredient: semolina of durum wheat and one reactant: water. In its native state, the ingredient has two main constituents, which are proteins and starch. The reactant, together with mechanical and thermal energy, is necessary to modify their structure to obtain the…
