Sensory characteristics of cookies
Sensory evaluation data (Table 5) shows that the cookies made
with the water chestnutflour only scored good range of acceptance.
Not much difference was observed in appearance and color of the
cookies (Fig. 5). Because of sweet and nuttyflavor of water chestnut
flour, panel could hardly make out the extent of water chestnut
flour added to wheatflour in cookies preparation. Although overallvariation and other parameters showed a downfall trend as the
water chestnutflour proportion was increased but still overall
acceptance scored well. Even the cookies prepared from whole
water chestnutflour earned good response from the panel with
overall acceptance of 7.4 as compared to control samples with score
of 8.26. Cookies made from water chestnutflour can be improved
by addition of some artificialflavor and improver