the push to add more whole grains and fiber to foods has invaded the snack sphere. A Kansas state university professor is researching how extrusion processing can be used to make fiber-enriched flour taste more like that used in everything from cookies to tortillas, in hopes that food manufacturers can make popular snacks more healthful without losing taste
funded by a one-year $30,000 grant from the kansas wheat commission sajid alavi, an assistant professor of geain science and industry at k-state's college of agriculture, and fellow researchers created flour enriched with varying levels of bran. they mixed the bran-enriched wheat flour with water using a standing mixer like the one cooks may use at home, and they let the dough sit overnight. the hydrated flour was then sent through a machine called an extrusion processor. the processor uses a seriesof rotating screws and heated barrele to precook the flour before it's pushed out of the end. after