The Process Of Pasta

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1- Introduction
Pasta is a Latin term which means dough, and this dough is formed from hard wheat flour, semolina, eggs (for egg spaghetti), water, durum flour, farina flour, and some desirable ingredients. After mixing the ingredients are typically added to an extruder that has variety of dies to form the shape of the final product, and sometimes some pigments are added. Then the pasta is dried and packaged for marketing (Debbouz & Doetkott, 1996; Fuad & Prabhasnkar, 2010). Semolina is rough-ground flour that is made of the endosperm of the durum wheat (Fuad & Prabhasnkar, 2010). Durum wheat has high content of protein and the carotenoid pigment lutein, which gives the yellow color to the pasta (Debbouz & Doetkott, 1996; Fuad & Prabhasnkar, 2010). Most of the protein content is gluten and it is considered to be the most important factor in high quality pasta (Fuad & Prabhasnkar, 2010). Pasta is a popular food because of its ease of preparation, sensory appeal, low cost and storage stability (Fuad & Prabhasnkar, 2010; Martinez et al, 2007). Italy is the country where pasta is most popular and Italy is also a big exporter of pasta to other countries (Sissons et al, 2007). Even …show more content…

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