Nutritional Improvement of Sugar-Snap Cookies Supplemented with <i>Ganoderma sessile</i> and <i>Pleurotus ostreatus</i> Solid-State Fermentation Flours.

ABSTRACT: Wheat and rice are major sources of human nutrition worldwide. Solid-state fermentation (SSF) with lignocellulolytic mushrooms can enhance their nutritional value and increase their functional properties. However, this technology is not yet widely applied. In this work, whole wheat and brown rice hydrated to 60% were used as substrates for the edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus and the medicinal Ganoderma sessile, which were incubated for 14 days at 25 °C in the dark. The fermented substrate biomass was incorporated into standard sugar-snap cookie recipes, substituting 20% of the wheat flour. We evaluated the technological and nutritional properties of alternative fermented flours and cookies. Both the fermented flours and cookies exhibited increased soluble and total protei

SUBMITTER: Mazzola A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12896895 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature