The impact of wheat (WT) flour replacement up to 45% (weight basis) by incorporation of ternary blends of teff (T), green pea (GP) and buckwheat (BW) flours on the viscometric pasting and gelling profiles of quaternary blended dough matrices was investigated by applying cooking and cooling cycles to rapid viscoanalyser (RVA) canisters with highly hydrated samples (3.5:25, w:w). Viscometric cooking and cooling parameter trends related to suitable patterns for lower and slower starch hydrolysis, and lower and/or slower firming and starch retrogradation kinetics in blended breads mainly include higher viscosity values for peak viscosity, breakdown on cooking and viscosity of hot (95 °C) paste, but lower viscosity values after gelling (50 °C). These visco-metric requirements for achieving suitable textural and thermal features in blended breads, were met by adding T/GP/BW to replace 22.5% of WT flour in blended dough formulations. Larger WT flour replacement by 37.5% of the ternary mixture T/GP/BW (7.5/15/15) provided hydrated blends with higher values for viscosity of hot (95 °C) paste, and lower viscosity values after gelling (50 °C), in good accordance with poorer formation of rapidly digestible starch and total digestible starch, and more prominent formation of resistant starch and slowly digestible starch in breads, respectively.

Financial support of the Spanish institutions Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Projects AGL2011 22669 and AGL2015-63849-C2-1-R).

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