All the fresh spaghetti showed
good cooking characteristics, which was most likely due to the
presence of ovalbumin; like gluten (Alamprese, Iametti, Rossi, &
Bergonzi, 2005), ovalbumin may have interacted with AF proteins
and with the pregelatinized starch of EPP, reinforcing the protein
network and delaying the swelling and gelatinization of starch
during cooking, resulting in better performance.