Browsing Ciencias de la Salud Humana by Subject "Amaranth"

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    • Development of Jams with Ancestral Seed Aggregates 

      Bailey, Jannika; Mezzatesta, Pablo; Farah, Silvia; Figueras, Tatiana; Raimondo, Emilia (Comite editorial Biology and Life Science Forum, 2022-02-15)
      Small-scale food producers have been negatively impacted by the present pandemic and have been forced to use innovations with low-risk products as a means to increase sales. The object was to determine variations in the nutrient profile of peach jam with the introduction of amaranth or quinoa seeds, the latter having been rinsed beforehand to reduce saponin content. Three varieties of the jam were made, and these were subjected to a sensory evaluation by a panel of 30 untrained judges (consumers) and analysed to determine the variation in their composition as a result of the addition of the ...

    • Preparation of Fresh Noodles with Chia and Amaranth 

      Bailey, Jannika; Farah, Silvia; Mezzatesta, Pablo; Raimondo, Emilia (Comite editorial Biology and Life Science Forum, 2022-10-19)
      Current nutritional recommendations lead to reformulate traditional products, such as fresh noodles, in order to improve the nutrients, they provide. The objective of this work was to determine the variation of the nutritional profile of fresh noodles by partially replacing wheat flour with chia and amaranth flour. For this purpose, wheat flour was partially substituted with 15% chia flour and 11% amaranth flour, respecting the proportions of the rest of the ingredients (called FS) and fresh noodles with unsubstituted wheat flour, which is taken as the standard (F). Once prepared, protein, total ...