Research Article

Effect of Carrot Juice on the Texture Properties, Rheology, and Microstructure of Yoghurt

Table 1

Chemical composition of yoghurt with different carrot juice addition doses.

CompositionControl10% CJ20% CJ

Moisture content (%)81.56 ± 0.04c82.28 ± 0.06b83.73 ± 0.05a
Fat (%)3.31 ± 0.03a3.07 ± 0.02b2.79 ± 0.04c
Total solids (%)16.58 ± 0.05a15.89 ± 0.06b15.36 ± 0.04c
Crude protein (%)3.11 ± 0.03a2.89 ± 0.05b2.73 ± 0.02c
Ash (%)0.73 ± 0.02a0.71 ± 0.01a0.70 ± 0.01a
Ferric reducing power (mg GAE kg−1)NS112.41 ± 2.87a110.74 ± 2.54a108.23 ± 3.52a
Total phenolic content (mg GAE kg−1)NS36.91 ± 1.06a37.86 ± 1.13a38.92 ± 1.08a

The data are means ± SD (standard deviations). CJ: carrot juice; GAE: gallic acid equivalent; NS: nonsignificant. Different lowercase letters a-c show significance by the one-way ANOVA test ().