The cookies made from wheat flour were selected as the control cookies for the consumer test, the cookies made from buckwheat as an example of flour with a high protein content, and the cookies made from FSR and FPM (rice and maize flours), as examples which produced cookies with similar instrumental characteristics to the
control cookie. The results of the cookie sensory evaluation are shown in Table 3. Consumers rated cookies prepared from FPM with the highest quality. These cookies had the best sensorial scores for appearance, taste and overall acceptability, although there were no significant differences in the last parameter between FPM
cookies and the cookies made from wheat. The scores obtained would appear to indicate that consumers found the slightly more yellowish colour (Fig. 1) of those cookies appealing.