compared with the conventional baking process. Therefore,
steaming is recommended to be superior to baking in preserving
protein quality of bread ingredients. This is tremendously important
for the national nutrition due to the staple role of bread.
The urbanization in China greatly demands the industrialization
of CSB. Freezing technology is commonly being employed for the
preservation of food commodities and the bakery industry is a
typical example of being exploited by freezing technology in the
western countries. Meanwhile, CSB has a relatively shorter shelflife
and higher propensity to staling due to its higher moisture
content as compared with baked bread. This also makes frozen
dough more appealing for the industrialization of CSB (Huang et al.,
2011). Despite many advantages from frozen dough, the dough
gradually deteriorates during frozen storage and leads to poor loaf
volume and strong alteration in textural properties of bread. The
deterioration of frozen dough is still a field of active research
although many alternative ways are proposed to improve its
quality. Loss of yeast viability and rupture of the gluten network in
frozen dough were widely studied and generally believed to be the
predominant factors (Autio and Sinda, 1992). Current literature is
focused on dough deterioration upon frozen storage, however, to