Avaliação de parâmetros de qualidade da farinha de trigo enriquecida com fécula de mandioca proveniente de municípios da Paraíba

Abstract

With the large internal demand for flour and the increasing dependence on the importation of this food, the mixed flours stand out as promising to supply the needs of the domestic market. However, the quality of the mixed flour is of paramount importance to the industry and the consumer, having the same that satisfazeros standards of the Brazilian legislation for flour. In this perspective, the objective was to verify the viability of the physico-chemical characteristics of the partial substitution of wheat flour for cassava starch. For that, a wheat flour and fifteen cassava masses were analyzed. Five concentrations of cassava masses (10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%) were added to the wheat flour, as well as the analysis for pure cassava starch (100%), each analysis in triplicate, corresponding to a total of 273 samples. The data were submitted to analysis of variance (ANOVA), and the means were compared by the Tukey test, considering a 5% probability. The moisture content increased with increasing percentage of cassava mass in wheat flour, where the masses composed only of cassava starch (100%) presented higher humidity and the pure wheat flour (FT) had lower humidity. As for ash, pure wheat flour had a higher ash content when compared to blends and pure cassava starch. The mean pH value varied according to each type of mass.