Rheological properties of kafirin and zein prolamins
Journal article, 2008

The possibility of forming dough from kafirin was investigated and laboratory prepared kafirin was formed into a viscoelastic dough system. Measurements with Contraction Flow showed that dough systems prepared from kafirin and from commercial zein had the required extensional rheological properties for baking of leavened bread. The extensional viscosity and strain hardening of the kafirin and zein dough systems were similar to those of gluten and wheat flour doughs. The kafirin dough system, however, unlike the zein dough system rapidly became very stiff. The stiffening behaviour of the kafirin dough system was presumed to be caused by cross-linking of kafirin monomers. SDS-PAGE showed that the kafirin essentially only contained alpha- and gamma-kafirin, whereas the zein essentially only contained alpha-zein. Since gamma-kafirin contains more cysteine residues than the alpha-prolamin it is more likely to form disulphide cross-links, which probably caused the differences in stiffening behaviour between kafirin and zein dough systems. Overall the kafirin dough system displayed rheological properties sufficient for baking of porous bread. Kafirin like zein appears to have promising properties for making non-gluten leavened doughs. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

viscosity

WHEAT GLUTEN

dough

VITRO PROTEIN DIGESTIBILITY

strain hardening

FLOURS

GRAIN

BREADMAKING PERFORMANCE

COOKING

zein

SORGHUM

kafirin

FILMS

ENDOSPERM

extensional

viscoelasticity

DOUGH

Author

A. Oom

SIK – the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology

A. Pettersson

SIK – the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology

J. R. N. Taylor

University of Pretoria

Mats Stading

Chalmers, Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Polymeric Materials and Composites

Journal of Cereal Science

0733-5210 (ISSN) 1095-9963 (eISSN)

Vol. 47 1 109-116

Subject Categories

Materials Engineering

DOI

10.1016/j.jcs.2007.02.005

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