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Valorization of roasted longan stone in production of functional biscuits with high antioxidant activity and dietary fiber

Abstract

Being waste products of the food industry, longan stones can be a promising functional food ingredient owing to their high fiber content, nutrients and antioxidative properties. Biscuits were enriched with roasted and unroasted longan stone powder. The longan stones were roasted at 170 °C for 5, 15, and 25 min by using a fluidized bed roaster. Longan stone powders were incorporated in wheat flours at different concentrations. Biscuits were obtained with higher fiber content (5.72 ± 0.03%) and lower fat content (12.50 ± 0.02%) compared to the control biscuits. Antioxidant activity (51.18 ± 0.02% inhibition) and total phenolic contents (394.61 ± 0.63 mg GAE/100 g) of the biscuits increased significantly as the roasting degree of added longan stone powder increased (p≤0.05). Biscuits enriched with longan stone powder roasted during 15 minutes took higher sensory scores than control biscuits and biscuits enriched with unroasted longan stone powder. The roasting process increased the acceptability of addition longan stone powder.

Keywords:
longan stone; roasting; fiber; antioxidant activity; sensory

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