Nutritional and physical characterization of sugar-snap cookies: effect of banana starch in native and molten states
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Starch is the major glycemic carbohydrate related to postprandial glycaemia and it naturally exists in the form of partially crystalline starch granules. Interestingly, the microstructural and granular features of banana starch have been reported to be inherently resistant to enzyme digestion. Converse to bread, sugar-snap cookie dough undergoes minimum starch gelatinization during baking. Therefore, the inclusion of banana starch in sugar-snap cookies could have a major role on starch susceptibility to be undigested or digested slowly, which could be especially relevant in gluten-free diets, typically characterized by a lower fiber intake and higher glycemic response. Here, we demonstrate that the starch digestion rate (k) and consumer's acceptance of gluten-free sugar-snap cookies can be simultaneously improved by a 30% replacement of rice flour by native banana starch. Furthermore, the content of resistant starch was increased from 0.1 to 3.6% (g per 100 g cookie), which would allow labeling of cookies as "source of fiber" in some food regulations. We also showed that the inclusion of fully gelatinized banana starch causes an increase of the water fraction that dramatically shifts the texture from brittle to soggy, according to the three-point bending test, that contributed to worsen consumer's acceptance. Classic sugar-snap cookies are composed mainly of a continuous glassy sucrose-water matrix which confers this product its brittle textural properties. Therefore, when selecting novel starches for low/sustained glycemic response, it is paramount to deliberately formulate sugar-snap cookies to begin their shelf-lives in a glassy state that allows a desired crispy texture.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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