4. Conclusions
Oil types and frying time have significant effect on quality properties of fried chicken nuggets, namely as surface colour, texture, oil content and moisture content. Deep fat frying with oils with lower degrees of hydrogenation resulted in products with significantly lower chroma (C*) values, lower yellowness values, lower lightness values, higher oil content, lower crispy texture than oils with higher degrees of hydrogenation. The oil–moistureratios of the fried products can be adjusted depending on the frying oil used.