Foods (Aug 2022)

Characterization of Fresh Pasta Made of Common and High-Amylose Wheat Flour Mixtures

  • Alessio Cimini,
  • Alessandro Poliziani,
  • Gabriele Antonelli,
  • Francesco Sestili,
  • Domenico Lafiandra,
  • Mauro Moresi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11162510
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 16
p. 2510

Abstract

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This study aims to assess the main biochemical, technological, and nutritional properties of a few samples of fresh pasta composed of commercial common wheat flour blended with increasing percentages, ranging from 0 to 100%, of high-amylose wheat flour. Although the technological parameters of such samples remained practically constant, fresh pasta samples including 50 to 100% of high-amylose wheat flour were classifiable as foods with a low in vitro glycemic index of about 43%. However, only fresh pasta made of 100% high-amylose wheat flour exhibited a resistant starch-to-total starch ratio greater than 14% and was therefore eligible to claim a physiological effect of improved glucose metabolism after a meal, as according to EU Regulation 432/2012.

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