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Old 04-09-2008, 02:22 AM   #1
saruxanset

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Default Why does food get stale over time?
When we think of food going stale, we typically think of products such as bread. You might think that bread starts to stale days after it is made. But the process of staling actually begins as soon as the loaf leaves the oven and begins to cool. How quickly bread goes stale depends on what ingredients are in it, how it was baked, and the storage conditions.
Breads are essentially networks of wheat flour protein (gluten) molecules and starch molecules. Suspended inside this scaffolding are pockets of carbon dioxide gas that are produced during fermentation by yeast. This creates a foamlike texture.
The most important event in the process of staling is when starch molecules crystallize. The starch molecules need water molecules to form their crystal structure. They get the water molecules from the gluten. As a result, the network changes, becoming rigid at room temperature and below. This state, however, is reversed with the introduction of heat; stale bread can be freshened by warming it—as in toasting.
Although scientists have made considerable progress in dissecting the staling process, it remains poorly understood. Yet progress has been made in slowing staling through the addition of certain ingredients so that bread from large commercial bakeries in the U.S. seldom goes stale. On the other hand, the process of staling has also been sped up by other methods in order to make croutons in a relatively short time.
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Old 08-21-2008, 04:18 PM   #2
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You know that everything that is organic has bacteria. With food becoming older and stale, more an more bacteria will have effect on it. And in this case, the food gets stale. And one thing that you must keep in mind is that the stale food has toxins and fungus. So, you must never eat foos that has been stale.
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