Employ of Citrus By-product as Fat Replacer Ingredient for Bakery Confectionery Products

Abstract

Citrus fruits processing is one of the foremost industrial activities in Sicily and the main residual by-product consists in peels and seeds (known as "pastazzo"). Traditionally this by-product has been used for different purposes, and only most recently, it has been described as source of a wide range of healthy bioactive compounds and dietary fibers. In the present work, a debittered food grade orange fiber (DOF), extracted from orange juice by-product, was experimentally obtained and tested as fat-replacer at different percentages (30, 50, and 70%) in bakery confectionery products (brioches). The DOF showed high total fiber content, low water activity and a high water binding capacity. The obtained bakery products were characterized for nutritional, technological and microbiological parameters through storage at room temperature. Results highlighted that the addition of DOF results in final products with increased moisture content, mainly after 1 day of storage, and good textural proprieties. Furthermore, the fat-replacing strategy, at different levels of DOF, resulted in final products with, besides a constant content of carbohydrates, showed lowered fat content, increased content of dietary fiber and protein. In particular, the 50% fat replacement allowed to obtain brioches with improved technological properties and with desirable microbiological traits, mostly within the first 24 h from production and up to 5 days of storage.

Keywords: bakery confectionery products; dietary fiber; fat replacement; functional foods; orange juice waste.

Figure 1

(A) Brioches control; (B) Brioches added with 30% of DOF; (C) Brioches added with 50% of DOF; (D) Brioches added with 70% of DOF.

Figure 2

(A) Moisture content at different times of storage in brioches control and added with DOF; (B) Fats content in brioches control and added with different quantity of DOF; (C) Proteins content in control brioches and with different quantity of DOF; (D) Glucose and starch content in control brioches and with different quantity of DOF; (E) Carbohydrates and starch content in control brioches and with different quantity of DOF; (F) Ash content in control brioches and with different quantity of DOF.