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We review the functionality of sucrose during the manufacture of biscuits from the perspective of sugar replacement. Besides to providing sweetness, sucrose has important functionalities concerning structure and texture formation. These functionalities also need to be mimicked in reformulated biscuits. First, we review the hypotheses concerning the development of structure and texture of biscuits during manufacturing, which are conveniently summarized in a qualitative way using the Complex Dispersed Systems methodology. Subsequently, we represent the changes of the state of the biscuit during manufacturing in the supplemented state diagram, which indicates the important phase transitions occurring during mixing and baking. We propose that when reformulated biscuits follow similar paths in the state diagram, similar structures and textures can be obtained. Physical theories exist for predicting these phase transitions for existing sucrose-rich biscuits and also reformulated biscuits containing extensive sweeteners as sugar replacers. More accurate predictions of structure and texture can be eventually obtained if they are combined with computational models, including heat and moisture transfer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

[Display omitted] • Biscuit dough was prepared by adding free and encapsulated cells separately. • Probiotic biscuit was prepared at different baking temperatures and baking times. • The viability of free and encapsulated cells during baking was studied. • Physicochemical properties of probiotic biscuits were determined. • Log-linear model was the best in predicting probiotic cells' inactivation kinetics. The rising popularity of probiotic food in the diet for improved health benefits leads to the development of new probiotic functional foods. In general, biscuit is a long-shelf-life snack product that can be consumed straight from the pack without further processing. Although the development of probiotic bakery products is an innovative approach to market expansion, the infusion of probiotics in biscuits to produce probiotic biscuits has not been explored because of the complexity of the baking process. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the impact of baking conditions (160, 180, 200, and 220 °C) on the viability of free and encapsulated probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus NCDC 016 cells by adding them into biscuit dough separately and baking for up to 600 sec. The cells were encapsulated using 20 % maltodextrin and 8.51 % gum arabic as a wall material and spray drying at an inlet and outlet air temperature of 150 and 55 ± 2 °C, respectively. At different baking temperatures (160, 180, 200, and 220 °C), the viability of probiotic (free and encapsulated) cells, the physicochemical properties of biscuits, and the inactivation kinetics of cells were examined by withdrawing samples every 120 sec. The survivability of encapsulated cells was observed to be higher than free cells at 160 and 180 °C for 600 sec. The moisture content and water activity were found to be higher and lower, respectively for encapsulated probiotic biscuits than for the biscuit containing free cells. The observed results of higher cell viability at 200 °C, 360 sec (5.38 log CFU/g) than at 180 °C, 600 sec (5.02 log CFU/g) can be explained by the time–temperature combination. Thus, producing the probiotic biscuit at baking conditions of 200 °C and 360 min is possible, providing the cell viability of 5 log CFU/g of probiotic biscuit. Further, the inactivation kinetics of cells were predicted by log-linear, Weibull, log-logistic, Gompertz, and Buchanan models. Under all baking conditions, the log-linear model was the best model for describing the data of encapsulated and free cells. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The effect of using a variety of cellulose ether emulsions as a fat source, instead of a conventional shortening, on the structural changes occurring in a dough biscuit recipe during heating were studied. Linear viscoelastic properties and texture properties during heating were compared. In comparison to conventional shortenings, the cellulose ether emulsions are a healthier option characterized by lower fat content, lower saturated fatty acids content and the absence of trans fatty acids. In the dough with shortening, temperature had the biggest influence on the viscoelastic properties, characterized by a decrease in viscoelasticiy within the temperature range from 25 °C to 45 °C. In the cellulose ether emulsions dough the increase in temperature produced a slow linear decrease in the elastic and viscous moduli. At 80 °C all dough showed similar viscoelastic behavior. The texture development during baking differed among the recipes. In the shortening dough the texture changes appeared since the first minute of heating, while in the emulsion dough, the effects were noticeable after 5 min of baking and varied according to the cellulose ether thermal gelation properties. A final crispy texture was obtained in all the recipes, although the cellulose emulsion biscuits required longer baking times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper validates a simultaneous heat and mass transfer model proposed to describe the discontinuous biscuit baking process. The mathematical model includes the moving evaporation front and the development of the crust observed during the baking process. The problem is solved over a two-dimensional geometry using the finite element method. Thermo-physical properties were computed by means of continuous functions. Variations in temperature and water content during baking were predicted with high to discrete accuracy using this model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]