Functional properties of the albume and quality of eggs of hen covered with protéico concentrate of bovine milk serum. / Propriedades funcionais do albume e qualidade de ovos de galinha cobertos com concentrado proteico de soro de leite bovino.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

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Egg white proteins are extensively used as processed food because of their functional properties, as gelation and foam formation. Depending on the storage conditions, some physical, microbiological, chemical and functional changes may occur. Functional food properties may be preserved when foods are coated by edible films, since both the loss of moisture and the transport of O2 and CO2 are reduced. The objectives of this work were quantify the weight loss, the Haugh unit and the pH contents of s-ovalbumin in the albumen, determining changes in the stability of egg white foam, in the texture profile and in the expressible moisture of fresh egg white gels and eggs coated or not by whey protein concentrate 0NPc), under six storage periods (3, 7, 10, 14,21 and 28 days), at 25°C. During the storage period, independently of the coating, values of Haugh unit, weight loss and albumen pH decreased, and the differences among the values from the first to the last period were lower in the coated eggs. The Haugh unit values for coated eggs were similar to those found in bibliographic references when the same storage period is considered. For the six storage periods, the volumes of drained liquid in non-coated eggs were higher (P<0.01). In the 3rd day the difference between the coated and the non-coated egg was 59%, and after 28 days that difference increased up to 202%. In the non-coated eggs, values of pH and volume of drained liquid increased during the storage. The content of s-ovalbumin was higher in the non-coated than in the coated eggs, independently of the storage period (P <0.01). After 3 days, the content of s-ovalbumin was 38% higher than in the coated eggs, and after 28 days the difference between the values was 205%. In the coated eggs, stored at 25°C, the pH was around 8, and the content of s-ovalbumin remained in 20%; after 28 days, the value increased to 27%. A positive correlation was found between the content of s-ovalbumin and the volume of drained liquid (R2 = 0.92 for coated eggs, and R2 = 0.94 for non-coated eggs). When the content of s-ovalbumin increased, the volume of drained liquid also increased, and the foam stability decreased. Hardness of the albumen gel of non-coated eggs was higher than the coated eggs, during the whole storage period. For the non-coated eggs, the storage period did not affect the hardness of the gels, but for the coated eggs, a linear regression explained 60% of the behavior of the hardness as a function of the storage period. When considering the gel elasticity, no interaction was found between the storage period and the egg coating. Non-coated eggs exhibited gels with higher springiness than coated eggs. The same was found for the cohesiveness index and the gel chewiness, independently of the storage periods. However, the opposite was observed for the percentage of expressible moisture, where the values for coated eggs were higher than for non-coated eggs.

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eggs proteinas soro do leite ovos - qualidade milk serum proteins coverings

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