Barras de cereais com amnêndoas de chichá, sapucaia e castanha-do-gurguéia, complementadas com casca de abacaxi

Abstract

The trend of consumption of healthy food, innovative and practical has led to growth increasing in recent years the market for the cereal bars. The cereal bars are formed by grain cereals, processed and clusters, and they can be incorporated different ingredients, such as integral cereals, dehydrated fruit or crystallized fruit, almonds and sugars. There are in the native Brazilian flora, some species still little known, but which have potential for the market of almonds, as chichá, sapucaia and chestnut-of-gurguéia. However, its observe also the importance of the use of waste generated from fruit processing, such as bark, stems and cake, these can be used in the human diet. Thus, the objective of this work was to develop the cereal bars from almonds to chichá, sapucaia and chestnut-of-gurguéia, supplemented with pineapple bark. Cereal bars were making with three formulations (A, B and C), which they were different by the amount added of hydrogenated vegetable fat and dust of the pineapple bark. Subsequently, nine types of the cereal bars were prepared, three with almonds, chichá, three with almonds, chestnut-do-gurguéia and three of sapucaia with almonds, which were evaluated microbiologically and sensorial. After the sensory evaluation, the cereal bars with higher notes of overall impression was chose, and those subjected to chemical analyses. The sapucaia highlighted is among the almonds evaluated, by presenting the greatest medium for most parameters evaluated. It was found by the parameter overall impression that among the formulations tested showed that the largest note of acceptance was the formulation B, between the cereal bars with the three almonds studied. The cereal bars, developed with almonds of chichá and sapucaia, in general, were more accepted than cereal bars with almonds of chestnut-do-gurguéia. With regard to minerals, the highest levels in the cereal bars prepared in this study were, respectively, potassium, sodium, iron and zinc. It is viable to use the almonds, chichá, sapucaia and chestnut-of-gurguéia, and the dust of the pineapple bark in the preparation of the cereal bars.