The farinograph characteristics of wheat flour dough as
influenced by the addition of CDRB at different levels are
illustrated in Table 2. Addition of CDRB to wheat flour had
a marginal effect on the water absorption of flour, dough
stability and dough development time, except in variation
with 15% CDRB where dough development time decreased
to 2.2 min. Dough stability values were not much affected
by the addition of CDRB, but as the levels of CDRB
increased, the mechanical tolerance index increased from
53 (control) to 67 (at 15%), and the breakdown time
decreased indicating poor stability of dough at higher
levels.