Gujral et al. (2012) 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.
A similar increase in reducing power upon baking has been reported
by Filipcev et al. (2011) for bread prepared by incorporation of
buckwheat and rye flour to wheat flour.