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In this study the effect of different amounts of gelatin (1, 2, and 3 g) and sodium caseinate (1, 2, and 3 g) on sensory characteristics, image processing and texture of chocolate mousse was investigated and the relationship between sensory parameters - device was determined using principal components analysis method. Results showed that the gelatin had a great impact on the sensory characteristics. Results of texture analyzer showed that hardness, adhesiveness, gumminess and chewiness was being greatly affected by gelatin and these parameters increased with increasing gelatin but springiness was more dependent on the sodium caseinate. Entropy, fractal dimension, bubble size and porosity decreased with increasing gelatin. The amount of spherical bubbles also showed no significant difference. Results of principal components analysis showed that some textural characteristics (hardness, gumminess and chewiness) had close relationship.  

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Nowadays due to the role of nutrition in public health, low fat food production is one of the advantages of food industry. Therefore, the aim of this study is the feasibility of a new product in modern baking industry using inulin as substitute for fat in three level (20%, 45% and 70%) and using xanthan gum as a improver three level (0.1%, 0.2% and 0.3%) in cupcake dough formulation and evaluation of physical, microbial and sensory characteristics in final product. The results showed significant increase in inulin substitution level in low-fat cupcake formulation causes a significant increase (P<0.05) in volume index (up to 45% substituting), stiffness, browning of crust color and  significant decrease in crust transparence, redness and yellowness index as well as shelf life and sensory characteristics in final product. Also, using xanthan gum showed significant increasing (P<0.05) in porosity, stiffness index, ,browning of crust color, shelf life and sensory characteristics in final product but showed significant  decreasing in volume index, crust yellowness and redness. According to the results by response level statistical method, in the sample 45% of xanthan gum and 0.2 % of inulin were evaluated as the optimal points to be applied in the final product.

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Producing of fish powder is a good way for increasing the shelf life of these valuable protein sources, easy accessing and increasing of food variety.In this study, the effect of drying temperature on physicochemical properties of kilka and carp fish powder was investigated. For this purpose, temperatures of 45, 55, 65 and 75 °C were used to dry the fish. The results of this study showed that moisture, fat, protein and TVN for carp powder was 7.02%, 4.92%, 83.80%, and 150 mg/g, while moisture, fat, protein and TVN of kilka fish powder was 8.12, 8.8%, 5.09%, 82.18% and 140 mg/g, respectively. The highest water binding capacity was related to dried carp samples at 45 °C and dried kilka at 55 °C. The lowest and highest fat reabsorption was in dried carp samples at 45 °C and dried kilka at 55 °C, respectively. The results of density test showed that with decreasing drying temperature, the density of the final powder decreased. The highest densities of carp and kilka powders were 0.511 g/cm3 and 0.408 g/cm3, respectively, which were dried at 45 °C. The study also represented that with increasing temperature from 45 to 75 °C, L* factor of the powders decreased. Besides, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) results indicated that the proteins were more denatured at higher temperature and the particle sizes were reduced.