2.5. Ethical issues
The ethical issues of the sensory analysis were approved by the
Research Ethics Committee of the IBILCE.
3. Results and discussion
3.1. Descriptive quantitative analysis
Most of the fourteen panellists were female (93%), aged between
19 and 27 years (100%), who like cakes very much (100%) and
consume cakes weekly (29%) and fortnightly (36%).
The cakes were described using five attributes for appearance,
one for aroma, two for flavour and four for texture (Table 2).
The addition of prebiotics enhanced crust brownness and dough
beigeness of the cakes in comparison to the standard cake (Table 3).
Fructans are polymers of fructose linked by linear or branched
connections, through b(2 / 1) or b(2 / 6) (Carabin & Flamm,
1999), and since fructose is a reducing sugar (Amrein,