Sensory evaluation
Acceptability of the product recorded significant
effect of shortening on product quality. Taste is the
primary factor in determining the acceptability of any
product and has the highest impact in determining
the market success of product. Firstly cookies were
prepared by using butter but after sensory/textural
evaluation, the cookies were found to be hard in
texture. Due to this reason butter was replaced with
palmolein oil. Textural studies showed that the
cookies prepared by using palmolein oil were better in
texture in all types of fortified cookies with different
concentration of ingredients. The texture of cookies
was crispy as compared to the cookies prepared by
using butter. The incorporation of palmolein oil gave
good results in terms of the texture. After that the
cookies were prepared by incorporating soya flour
and pea flour at different levels of 5%, 10% and
15%. Sensory score for cookies containing 5% soya
and 5% pea flour were comparable to the control
whereas cookies containing 15% each of soya flour
and pea flour developed a beany flavor which was
liked moderately by some panelists. While the beany
flavor of the cookies was masked by adding chocolate
flavor as masking agent. Overall acceptability scores
were highest in cookies with 5% to 10% pea and
soya flours (Table 5). Similar results were reported
by Banureka and Mahendran (2009).