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Article: Ascorbic acid conditions dough for yeast breads.
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- Food Processing
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
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Dough conditioners help yeast-raised products achieve the volume and texture that gives each its own special quality and character. Dough conditioners are complex mixtures of emulsifiers, reducing and oxidizing agents, and enzymes. These ingredients act on the polysaccharide and protein constituents of wheat flour to improve both dough handling and the finished baked product.
For many years, bromate salts have been incorporated into dough conditioners for oxidative function. Now, however, questions have been raised about the safety of bromates. While bromates are still permitted in the United States, the trend among U.S. bakers is to find cost-effective ...