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Introduction
- Used as flour addites
- Used as dough conditioners
- Replace chemical ingredients
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What is enzymes?
- Large proteins
- Act as catalysts to speed up reaction.
- Does not change in process
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Produced by
- Plants
- Animals
- Micro-organisms
- Not living organisms
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Main types of enzymes
- Amylases
- Hemicullulases
- Proteases
- Glucose oxidase
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Baking enzymes
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Fungal amylase
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Application
- Flour standardisation
- Dough conditioners
- Sweetening
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Function
- Breaks down starch
- Produces maltose sugar
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Bacterial amylase
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Application
- Dough conditioners
- Antistaling
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Function
- Breaks down starch
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Maltogenic amylase
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Application
- Antistaling
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Function
- Breaks down starch
- Produces maltose sugar
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Glucoamylase
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Application
- Sweetening
- Browning
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Function
- Produces glucose sugar
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Hemicellulase / Pentosanase
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Application
- Dough conditioner
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Function
- Breaks down fibre
- Releases bound water
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Fungal protease
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Application
- Flour standardisation
- Dough conditioner
- Cracker production
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Function
- Breaks down gluten
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Bacterial protease
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Application
- Cracker production
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Function
- Breaks down gluten
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Glucose oxidase
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Application
- Dough conditioners
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Function
- Oxidises ascorbic acid
- Modifies gluten
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Source
- Bakers Forum, by Anchor Yeast, Volume 13 no.1, Summer 2010 page 5
- Google pictures
- Prepared using Xmind version 3.1.1
- Prepared by Horace W. Parsons
- E&OE