Quality of past prepared with Beauregard sweet potato flour

Abstract

The consumption of biofortifiedfoods is an alternative of inclusion of nutrients in the diet, especially for the elderly and children. The sweet potato of the Beauregard variety of orange pulp has a higher content of betacarotene, which consequently provides benefits to the health of consumers. In this way, the objective of the work was to develop a past with biofertified potato flour Beauregard and to evaluate its physical-chemical characteristics. For the development of the new pasta, 20% of wheat flour was replaced with biofortified potato flour. The pasta with biofortified flour, presented 89 times the betacarotene content, and 2.6 times. Intake of these nutrients improves immunity and decreases the incidence of degenerative diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, cataractsand macular degeneration due to their high betacarotene content.