The sensory scores for sensory attributes such as colour & appearance, mouth feel and overall acceptability were lowest for raw C. album flour cookies compared to wheat flour (control) and germinated C. album flour cookies.
The highest score for all sensory attributes were observed for germinated C. album flour cookies as shown in Table 7.
The dark color of raw C. album cookies may be due to its high phenolic content, ash content and gritty/sandiness in flour might have contributed to its reduced scores for sensory attributes like color appearance and mouth feel.
This grittiness of flour may be partly accounted to the presence of rigid, sharp-edged endosperm particles, bran and ungelatinized starch granules.
Germinated C. album flour cookies were more acceptable than their ungerminated forms as well as wheat flour cookies in all respects.