Pasta with a high content in dietary fibers and a reduced content in calories

摘要

Dietetic food in the form of alimentary pasta with high content in alimentary fibers and reduced contents in calories, for persons on a hypocaloric diet containing the following ingredients in the following percentages of weight: hard corn bran 82-88 %, glucomannan 3-1 %, fine bran of toasted hard corn 15-11 %, water 45-55 kgs per 100 kgs of mixture. The method comprises the steps of: a) adding fine bran to glucomannan; b) gradually adding bran to the mixture of glucomannan and fine bran mixing until homogeneity is reached; c) adding water at a temperature between 45 DEG and 55 DEG C to bring the mixture humidity to about 33-34 % kneading for about 20'; d) pouring off the knead in the load hopper of an extruder drawing it at a pressure of 110 bar; e) passing the extruded knead in a desiccation tunnel at about 65-75 DEG C for a first period of 30'; f) completing the desiccation step through a second desiccation period of 12 hours at 55-65 DEG C.