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RASSISSEMENT [1 record]

Record 1 1999-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Breadmaking
DEF

The complex changes that occur in bread during storage after baking that leads to loss of freshness or hardening to the point where the bread loses its eating quality.

CONT

Multiple factors contribute to staling, including moisture loss, starch retrogradation and loss of crumb cohesion. However, starch retrogradation - the reformation of starch molecules into an ordered, crystalline state - is perhaps the primary physical change associated with staling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Boulangerie
DEF

Évolution des caractéristiques du pain au cours de sa conservation qui correspond à trois types d'altérations [...]

OBS

Modification chimique du pain causée par un entreposage prolongé.

Key term(s)
  • rassissement

Spanish

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