Gelado comestível à base de leite de búfala com ingredientes funcionais: aplicação de linhaça (Linum usitatissunum L.) e quitosana

Abstract

In the last decades, there is a growing in the interest research and consume foods products with functional properties. The flaxseed (Linum usitatissimun L.) has been considerate a functional ingredient of great importance is due its functional combinations such a linolênico acid, lignans and fibers that are potentially beneficial to our health. Several research evidence the positive effects of adding flaxseed to the food to the combat and prevention of many diseases, for example, cancer, constipation, menopause, disease cardiovascular, among others. The chitosan, considered a soluble fiber of the animal origin, have been researched by its hypocholesterolemic action and as a co adjuvant in the reduction of weight. The processed foods with long shelf life, with nutritional and sensorial quality guaranteed, present consumption potential. The ice cream, a dairy product obtained by the freezing of a pasteurized mix of ingredients, has a large share of the market desserts. Thus, this work had purpose, develop the prescriptions of ice cream of buffalo milk, skimmed, supplemented with flaxseed (5%, 10% and 15%) and chitosan in order to get the acquisition of products with an alternative source of fibers, evaluate the effects in the quality physic-chemical, chemical, microbiological and sensorial characteristics. The addition of flaxseed flour and chitosan provoked significant increases on protein mineral salts and fibers contents of ice cream, transforming them in a product with high content of alimentary fibers. Among the samples of ice cream added to formulations of flour flaxseed, the SQL-10 (2% of chitosan and 10% of flaxseed) was the most accepted attributes for flavor, texture, sweetness, flavor and residual global acceptance. For the test-ordering of preference, the formulation SQL-0 (2% of chitosan and 0% of flaxseed) was the most preferred while the formulation SQL-10 (2% of chitosan and 10% of flaxseed) was second place in the test. The ice cream with chitosan and flaxseed flour processed are within the concepts of functional food, because have in their formulations functional ingredients that provide benefits to health in order to promote improvement in quality of life.