Research Article

Pasting and Dough Rheological Properties of Ackee (Blighia sapida) Aril Flour: A Contribution to the Search for Wheat Flour Substitutes

Table 3

Flow parameters from the Power Law and Herschel-Bulkley models for wheat dough, ackee aril dough, and wheat-ackee aril dough mixtures.

TreatmentPower Law ()Herschel-Bulkley model ()
(Pa·sn) (Pa) (Pa·sn)

T1aa0.993aaa0.995
T2ba0.993baa0.995
T3cb0.994caa0.993
T4db0.996aaa0.986
T5db0.993dbb0.988

Wheat/ackee aril flour mass ratios of 100 : 00 (T1), 75 : 25 (T2), 50 : 50 (T3), 25 : 75 (T4), and 0 : 100 (T5). The same lowercase letters within a column are not significantly different at .