1. Development of a User Friendly Bread Improver For Bakery Industry.By
S.B Navaratne

2. INTRODUCTION
Bread is an inalienable product from the modern dynamic society.
Which has already been integrated with the consumers in demographic as well as geographic market segments alike.
Because, this product has been enriched with an attractive sensory profile, ready to eat phenomenon and time easing capacity of the busy life style.
Hence, acceptance of this product is broad spectrum with respect to the need hierarchy.

3. Thus, stiff competition has been emerged among the bakers and they attempt to maintain the competitive edge in terms of quality.
Therefore, bread improvers can play a crucial role in the arena of quality.

4. Scope of the Study
To preserve as much fungal alpha amylase as possible in the bread improver, because wheat flour lack of this enzyme and also this enzyme is heat tolerable up to 600C.
Where as, Alpha amylase is the enzyme, which merely initiate the leavening process of yeast leaven bakery products.

5. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
Development of a user friendly bread improver for bakery industry.
Preservation of enzyme(α amylase) secreted by yeast with an appropriate drying techniques.
Development of a methodology to extract alpha amylases as maximum as possible.
Application of developed bread improver in commercial scale bread manufacturing process.

6. MATERIALS AND METHOD
Materials. Cleaned wheat flour, Yeast, Sugar, Ice cubes, Distilled water, pH meter, Electronic balance, measuring cylinder, Cooling with de-humidifying dryer and Mechanical dryer

7. METHODOLOGY
Two factor factorial design with three variables at two levels were taken into account.
Variables
i. Amount of Yeast(leavening agent) 1% and 3%.
ii. Period of fermentation – 3 hours and 6 hours.
iii. Method of drying – Cooling with dehumidifying and sensible heating at constant humidity ratio drying processes.

8. 2Kg of cleaned wheat flour was taken,
3% sugar and 60% distilled water were incorporated and mix well in order to form dough of suitable consistency.
Prepared dough was subjected for the subsequent trials of the experiment.

9. Experimental design 2Kg dough a01% Yeast a1 3% Yeast
b03hrs ferme b1 6 hrs fermen b0 3 hrs fer b16 hrs fer
C0 C with D C1 SH C0Cwith D C1SH C0CwithD C1SH C0Cwith D C1SH
80C C C C C C C C
All treatments were chilled after completion of fermentation process.
Eight treatment combinations were prepared.
Moisture content of the treatments was maintained at 8-10% after drying.

10. 8 treatment combinations were evaluated by incorporation of 2% of the treatment to normal bread dough and monitored
i Time taken to reach optimum leavening index 2.0 and
ii Leavening efficiency

11. Selection of best treatments
L. Index = Increment volume of the dough
Initial volume
L. efficiency= L.ti me (without treat- with treat) to reach Lindex .02*100
L.time to reach L. index 2.0 (Without treatment)
Best treatments were selected in terms of leavening index and leavening efficiency.
Thereafter, best two treatments out of 8 were subjected for commercial scale bread manufacturing process and bulk density and pH value of which were compared as against same of normal bread.

12. Results and discussion
Leavening efficiency of the treatments
Treatment
Mean value of 3 replicates
Mean value
Total
Just after
1 month after
2 months after
3 months after
a0b0c0
a1b0c0
a0b1c0
a1b1c0
a0b0c1
a1b0c1
a0b1c1
a1b1c1 35 28 48 27 13 16 34 47 26 12 15
34.5
27.2
47.5
27.5
26.5
12.5
15.5
138
109
190
110
106 50
107 62
872

13. Best treatment is 1% yeast, 6 hours fermentation time and cooling with dehumidifying drying process.
The results were analyzed statistically in order to determine whether there is a significant difference between the treatments

14. ANOVA Table
Source
Sum of square df
Mean square
F value
Between treatment
Error
Total
3666.5
388.6
3284 7 24 31
523.6
16.2
105.9
34.01
Table F value F724 =2.42
DMR values revealed that the best treatment was 1% yeast, 6 hrs fermentation time and cooling with dehumidifying drying process, as difference between mean value of a0b1c0 treatment and all other treatments remained greater than the DMR value.

15. Mean leavening time of 3 replicates (minutes) and X±SD
LEAVENEING TIME
Mean leavening time of 3 replicates (minutes) and X±SD
Control
a0b0c0
a1b0c0
a0b1c0
a1b1c0
a0b0c1
a1b0c1
a0b1c1
a1b1c1
180
115
130 90
127
140
166
135
156
180±.2
115±.1
130±.1
90±.1
127±.1
140±.2
166±.2
135±.2
156±.2
Best treatment is 1% yeast, 6 hours leavening time and cooling with dehumidifying drying process. Because, it takes least leavening time.
The next best treatment is 1% yeast, 3 hours leavening time and cooling with dehumidifying drying process.

16. The best two treatments were compared along with ordinary bread manufacturing process in terms of leavening index.

17. Leavening index (Mean value of three replicates)
Leavening time (hrs)
Leavening index (Mean value of three replicates)
a0b1c0
a0b0c0
control
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
0.7
1.6
0.6
0.3
1.2
1.8
Best treatment is 1% yeast, 6 hours fermentation and cooling with dehumidifying drying process.
Quality of bread were compared in terms of pH value and bulk density of bread crumb.

18. Bulk density and pH value of best two treatments along with common bread.
Physical parameters (Mean value of 3 replicates)
a0b1c0
a0b0c0
Control
Regulatory requirements
pH value
X±SD
Bulk density
5.7
5.7±0.2
0.10
0.10±0.01
5.5
5.5±0.18
0.12
0.12±0.01
5.4
5.4±0.21
0.125
0.125±0.02
pH of all breads are remained within the regulatory requirement.
Bulk density of treatment a0b1c0 is less than the other two treatments.

19. Conclusion
Yeast extract particularly alpha amylase can use as a bread improver in order to accelerate leavening process of yeast leavened bakery products as well as improvement of bread crumb structure.

20. References
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