(Cole, 1991). Cooking loss is one of the most frequently measured parameters as an estimate of GF pasta resistance to disintegration upon prolonged boiling (Hormdok and Noomhorm, 2007; Yoenyongbuddhagal and Noomhorn, 2002a, 2002b). Another important measured index is pasta water uptake, which depends on the weakness of starch granules and is related to the amount of starch damage (Yoenyongbuddhagal and Noomhorn, 2002a,
2002b). A large number of instrumental methods have also been developed to measure the textural properties of cooked pasta (Bhattacharya et al., 1999; Hormdok and Noomhorm, 2007). Tensile, cutting, compression tests and texture profile analyses have been frequently performed to evaluate cooked pasta characteris- tics, and parameters such as tensile strength, deformation at rupture, cutting stress, hardness, adhesiveness, springiness and cohesiveness have been extracted (Charutigon et al., 2008; Cole,
1991; Collado and Corke, 1997; Galvez et al., 1994; Yoenyongbuddhagal and Noomhorn, 2002b; Tam et al., 2004).
The purpose of this paper was to determine the cooking behaviour of fourteen commercial GF spaghetti samples, previously investigated for their chemical, biochemical and physical properties in the uncooked state (Mariotti et al., 2011). A durum wheat spaghetti sample of a well known Italian brand was the reference. Proper cooking conditions were adopted and different conven- tional and innovative evaluations (i.e. compression test, creep test) were performed at various cooking times. Investigations on the ultrastructural organization of the uncooked products were also carried out.
2. Experimental
2.1. GF spaghetti samples
Fourteen Italian commercial GF spaghetti samples have been investigated. On the basis of the ingredients declared on the labels, they were divided into four groups as follows: 1) rice spaghetti [R]: R1 (100% rice flour); R2 (rice flour, E-471: mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids); R3 (100% rice flour); R4 (rice flour, 2% rice germ, E-
471); 2) corn spaghetti [C]: C1 (100% corn flour); C2 (100% corn flour); C3 (100% corn flour); 3) corn starch based spaghetti [CS]: CS1 (corn starch, potato starch, inulin, E-471, aroma cardamom); CS2 (corn starch, potato starch, lupin flour, lupin proteins, E-471); CS3 (corn starch, corn flour, rice flour, pea protein isolate, E-471); CS4 (corn starch, potato starch, lupin flour, lupin proteins, E-471);
4) spaghetti prepared with a mixture of rice flour and corn flour, alone or with the addition of other ingredients [M]: M1 (70% rice flour, 29% corn flour, E-471); M2 (corn flour, rice flour, buckwheat flour, yeast, tapioca flour, sunflower flour); M3 (corn flour, rice flour, pea protein isolate, E-471). The addition of E-471 was re- ported for eight brands. All the samples were produced in Italy, with the only exception of R3, imported from Thailand. A durum wheat spaghetti [S] sample, of a well-known Italian brand, was the reference.
2.2. Cooking conditions
Pasta was cooked in boiling mineral water (total dissolved solids ¼ 0.1002 g/L), without salt addition, using a pasta to water ratio of 1e15. Different cooking times were considered, both below and above the optimum cooking time (OCT): 4, 7, 8, 9, 12 min for [R] samples; 4, 8, 9, 11 and 14 min for the other GF samples; 3, 5, 7, 8, 9,
12 min for [S]. The evaluation of pasta characteristics was con- ducted as a function of cooking time, to obtain a more complete description of the cooking quality of a sample; in particular, its behaviour under overcooking conditions was considered for testing the resistance of the sample to hydrothermal disintegration. The
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