Data obtained from the compression-adhesion test performed on WF-D and the different CTD are reported in table 2a.
Significantly different behaviors were observed among the sample in terms of resistance to a compressive force while unexpectedly differences related to stickiness (the energy required to overcome attractive forces between the dough and the
surface in contact with it)were not statistically significant. SL-D in particular exhibited the highest resistance to compression hardness(maximum opposition to deformation) and compression energy in fact were the highest among the samples a similar
behavior (even if significant) was noticed for the dough formulated without any sugar. On the other hand SC-D and FR-D both containing bulk sugar showed comparable mechanical properties but sig lower than SL-D and NS-D ones. The presence of bulk sugar thus determined a softer texture of the mass probably due to their physics-chemical role in relation to water and starch as already observed by in biscuit dough