Total phenolic content (TPC)
Significant increase in TPC was observed in both raw and germinated flour cookies (Table 5).
This increase in observed TPC might be due to the production of Maillard reaction products in the cookies during thermal processing (Lindenmeier & Hofmann, 2004).
The significantly highest phenolic content for germinated flour cookies might be due to increased availability of some bound polyphenolic compounds from polysaccharides and proteins. Similar observations have been made for baked rhubarb, whereby TPC was found to increase during the baking process (McDougall, Dobson, & Jordan-Mahy, 2010).