Elaboração de sorvetes com redução de gordura à base de soro de leite.

Abstract

Ice cream is a food product widely appreciated by consumers all around the world. However, in its conventional composition, it has high fat content, what has awakened the producer merchant to the need of developing light products or diets. Thus, the study aimed to develop ice cream formulations with partial substitution of fat from whey powder. The physico-chemical, microbiological and sensorial analyzes of five fat reduction ice cream formulations named F0, F1, F2, F3 and F4 were carried out. The formulation F0 was considered a reference, standard formula, because it presented fat reduction, while the other samples with different concentrations of whey powder in the formulations presented fat reduction. The results of the microbiological analyzes, corresponding to the developed formulations, obeyed the limits allowed by the current legislation. Regarding the physical-chemical parameters, it was observed that the samples in question differed significantly among themselves, in a range from 61.18 to 62.93% for moisture. However, the values of ash, proteins and titratable acidity of the samples did not differ. For the lipids, the samples differed from one another, varying from 2.51 to 7.43%, as already expected in view of fat reduction. The reduced-fat and serum-substituted ice cream presented as an interesting proposal for the dairy market, since it has pleasant sensory characteristics.