Celiac Disease and The Quality Characteristics of Produced Bread for Celiac Patients

Abstract

Celiac Disease is a chronic istestinal disease where the ingestion of gluten leads to damage in people with gluten intolerance. The only treatment for celiac disease is lifelong adherence to gluten-free diet. Thus, people with celiac disease are strictly forbidden to consume wheat and wheat products. It is imperative to produce glutenfree bread for celiac disease patients as bread is an essential part of the diet of our community. Gluten, available in wheat flour, is the main component that regulates the dough and bread formation and that determines the quality of the bread. Gluten makes wheat bread sizable and stretchy as well as with a unique flavor and odor. The inability to replace gluten in bread makes gluten-free bread production almost impossible. Gluten-free cereals and legume flours or starches like rice, corn, soy beans, peanut and chickpea as well as cereal-like products like buckwheat, quinoa and amaranth flours are used in gluten-free bread production. Besides these, several enzymes, gums, protein isolats, acids and structure providers are also added into the formula. A permanent bread formula for celiac disease still lacks. Efforts to settle challenges like lack of size and flavor, texture toughness as well as low nutritive value and rapid staling observed in the gluten-free breads are still in progress. In this study; studies to improve the quality of gluten-free bread is compiled by various researchers. In this study, we compliled studies to improve the quality of gluten-free bread by various authors. So this study tried to shed light for those who want to do further research for this topic.