3.6.2. Oil absorption capacity (OAC)
The oil-absorption capacity (OAC) of alhydwan seed flour is
depicted in Table 1. In this study, the results showed that
the OAC of alhydwan seed flour was lower than that of WAC
(2.43 g/g), but much higher than that observed by (Du et al.,
2014) in whole legume flour. This high OAC was attributed to the
content of hydrophobic proteins in alhydwan seeds, which are
involved in oil absorption. Oil absorbing mechanism involves capillary
interactions within the food matrix that allows the absorbed
oil to be retained.