reported that the reducing power of the wheat flour was 23.4 mg AAE/g whereas barley exhibits higher reducing power that ranged from 47 to 61.2 mmol AAE/g of flour (Sharma & Gujral, 2011).
Baking of cookies lead to a significant (p 0.05) increase in reducing power and it ranged from 44.7 to 57.3%. The highest increase was observed for cookies prepared from only wheat flour.