Table 5 shows the values for cake firmness on storage days 1, 7 and 14, which increased over shelf-life. The same tendency of the increase of firmness during storage was observed in other studies. Luna Pizarro et al. (2013) obtained an increase of firmness during storage (5.34e8.89 N), when adding whole chia flour (WCF) in pound cakes. According to Sudha, Baskaran, and Leelavathi (2007), cakes prepared by replacing wheat flour at levels of 10, 20 and 30 g/
100 g by apple pomace yielded harder texture with increasing levels of pomace (11.28e14.32 N).