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Journal of Food Engineering
Vol. 178, 2016, Pages: 31–38

Study of bread staling by means of vibro-acoustic, tensile and thermal analysis techniques

Lubomír Lapcík, Martin Vašina, Barbora Lapcíková, Tomáš Valenta

Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 17. Listopadu 12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Abstract

Staling of two commercial breads was studied by mechanical tensile testing, transfer damping function vibrator testing and Kundt's impedance tube sound absorption measurements. The staling process was found to be affected by the porosity as well as the elasticity and rigidity of the cellular structure of the studied breads. Thermal analysis revealed two successive thermal events in the bread during heating, i.e., moisture liberation accompanying gelatinization of starch components and thermal degradation of carbohydrate constituents. A linear or exponential growth increase of the stiffness of the bread matrix with staling time was apparent from the Young's modulus dependences. Concurrently, the transfer damping function dependence indicated higher stiffness, as confirmed by evolution of the first resonance frequency peak after staling. The primary sound absorption peak frequency position shifted from 900 Hz to 1070 Hz. Simultaneously the sound absorption coefficient increased from 0.72 to 1.0 after 336 h of staling.

Keywords: Bread; Staling; Mechanical testing; Sound absorption measurement; Thermal analysis.

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