CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF SUPPLE-MENTED MAIZE BREAD

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Food Technology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt

2 Food Science and Technology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Abstract

Cooked maize (Giza-2 nixtamal) was grinded to prepare maize dough (masa) and baked. The produced maize bread was chemically and nutritionally evaluated. Supplementation was carried out with 1-lysine 0.5%, methionine 0.3% and a mixture of the same two materials at same concentrations, together with a control. The mixture gave the best gain in body weight, PER and FER.