Crust and crumb color results (L* values) are shown in Fig. 3.
Addition of chickpea and/or tiger nut flours rendered breads with
darker crust (p < 0.05) due to the amino acids and sugars provided
by chickpea and tiger nut flours respectively, which contributed to
Maillard reaction. Actually, the darkest crusts were obtained with with the higher cell area observed in these breads that affected
crumb color measurement. In fact, a negative correlation between
crumb color (L* values) and cell area was observed (r ¼ 0.60;
p ¼ 0.00). In contrast, emulsifier did not affect crumb color nor cell
area in C breads