The chemical composition of spaghetti with added banana flour,the control spaghetti and their respective flours (banana and durum wheat flour) is presented in Table 1. The moisture content of spaghetti decreased when banana flour level in the spaghetti in-creased. This pattern is related to the decrease in the protein con-tent with the increase of banana flour in the spaghetti, where thenetwork produced by the gluten is reduced and consequently theseparation of water during the drying is higher. A similar trend was found by Pacheco-Delahaye (2001), who reported that moisture content decreased when banana flour level in the product in-creased. Low-moisture content is important in the shelf-life of food