After the completion of the drying step, the bread samples were left to cool to room temperature (25 1 C) and then were packaged in the thermo-sealed polyethylene bags. All bread samples were stored in temperature controlled chambers at 25 C and 55% RH.Physicochemical, textural and microbiological analyses were then run 2 h, 24 h, 48 h, 96 h, 144 h and 168 h after the end of the baking process, whilst in-vitro digestion was run on freshly baked loaves(2 h).