STUDIES ON UTILIZATION OF SECOND GRADE BISCUITS (SGB) AS ADDITIVE TO DOUGH IN MANUFACTURING OF BISCUITS

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Food Technol. and Res. Inst. Agric., Res. Cent., Cairo, Egypt

2 Food Sci. Dept., Fac. Agric., Zagazig Univ., Egypt

Abstract

Biscuit manufacturing generates second grade biscuits (SGB) in the form of loose
biscuits, overweight biscuits, underweight biscuits, unpacked biscuits and packing defective, which
are considered waste. The objective of this study was aimed to produce low cost biscuits. In the
present study, SGB were utilized as additive to dough of biscuits aim to low the cost and to improve
the quality of biscuits. The results indicated that there were no discernible sharp destroyed in the
specific attributes of crust appearance, texture, crispness, taste, odour and overall preference between
all biscuit samples produced with addition of biscuit powder (SGB) and control. From the same
results, it could be noticed that overall acceptability of biscuit samples with addition of SGB did not
differ significantly from control.

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