Innovative Pasta with High Nutritional and Health Potential

• Other Authors: Gazza, Laura (Editor), Nocente, Francesca (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Medicine; Mental health services; innovative pasta raw materials; durum; emmer; spelt; pasta; brewers' spent grain; dietary fiber; einkorn; functional pasta; tritordeum; upcycling; unconventional ingredients; nutritional value; cooking quality; legumes; Spirulina Platensis; resistant starch; hydrolysis index; dietary fibre; annealing; slowly digestible starch; carbohydrates; fiber; in vitro digestion; micronization; brown rice; air fractionation; parboiling; rice pasta; enriched pasta; bioactive compound; tuna; sea bass; Ω-3 fatty acids; sensometrics; TPA (texture profile analysis); glycemic index; glycemic response; durum wheat; landraces; starch; available carbohydrates; glycemic load; texture profile analysis; gluten-free; celiac disease; fish; allergy; pear, date, and apple by-products; wheat flour; sensorial properties; scanning electron microscopy; multiple factor analysis; n/a
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Dry pasta is one of the most popular staple foods worldwide due to its convenience in terms of affordability, versatility, long shelf life, as well as sensory and nutritional value. As such, it represents a suitable carrier for health-promoting substances providing specific physiological functions. This Special Issue deals with the continuum aspects, "from seed to fork", that could have an impact on the nutritional, sensory, and technological aspects of pasta. In this Special Issue, we aimed to publish innovative research and review papers on physico-chemical and sensorial characteristics, nutritional value, functional and technological properties of pasta, and pasta-making processes. New raw materials, new functional ingredients, up-cycling of waste materials, in vivo experiments to test the effect of assumption of the supplemented pasta, and innovative packaging systems will also be addressed in this Special Issue. Predictions of pasta quality adopting chemometrics as well as multi-variate and statistical data analysis approaches were welcomed. Finally, in the medium term, the international pasta market is expected to stay negative unless tangible product innovations are introduced, particularly regarding the technological innovations aimed at improving the products' health benefits. This Special Issue aimed to provide a fundamental understanding and present the current strategies to improve the technological, nutritional, and sensory properties of pasta.