3.7. Cooking quality of salted noodles
Cooking quality is the characteristics of most importance to
consumers and therefore of great importance to wheat breeders and
processors. The results indicated that the cooked weight gain
decreased from 95.87 to 81.05 %, but the cooked weight loss increased
from 1.77 to 2.57 % as the yam flour proportion was added from 0 to
20 % (Fig. 3). The differences in the cooking quality were attributed
primarily to the gluten fraction. This is because, by increasing the
amount of yam flour that is incorporated, the gluten fraction was
diluted, leading to less water retention for the salted noodle.
Therefore, increasing the amounts of yam flour hindered the
functional dough properties and the cooking quality.