Effect of the addition of Zapallo flour and beer in the mortadella type Bologna

Abstract

Zapallo flour has the ability to sponge the meat mass by incorporating water, facilitating the retention capacity and improving the cohesion of the particles of the different ingredients, frozen beer improves the organoleptic characteristics of meat products. The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of the addition of Zapallo flour and frozen beer (Pilsen type) on the bromatological and organoleptic characteristics of the Bologna mortadella. The elaboration of the Zapallo flour was carried out through the drying process with air circulation, grinding and sieving, to be used later as an input in the elaboration of the Bologna mortadella, frozen beer was used to lower the temperature of the meat mass and add an innovation to the product. The meat product was made in triplicate under the same conditions, the experimental unit formulated was 1 kilogram per sample. The nutritional composition of the product of the attributes was analyzed; Protein, fat, moisture, ash and in terms of acceptability through a sensory panel of untrained judges, the color, smell, taste, texture and general appearance of the product were evaluated against a commercial mortise. There were no significant differences in the variables of the physicochemical composition, because there was no major variation in the samples. And the acceptance of the product is similar in comparison to a commercial mortadella. It is concluded that the changes in the composition of the product do not affect the benefits that the people brings.