Using a hybrid technology to produce traditional sourdough Gelveri bread: infrared cooking assisted with traditional method.

Traditional foods are known as special products that do not have a specific production technology and are transferred traditionally from generation to generation. The most important feature that distinguishes Gelveri bread from the other bread is the use of sourdough technique and cooking in stone kilns. It is one of the traditional foods produced in Turkey for hundreds of years.

False flax (Camelina sativa) seed oil as suitable ingredient for the enhancement of physicochemical and biological properties of chitosan films.

To overcome the drawbacks of synthetic films in food packaging industry, researchers are turned to natural bio-based edible films enriched with various plant additives. In current study chitosan blend films were produced by incorporating Camelina sativa seed oil at varying concentrations to chitosan matrix. The chitosan blend films were characterized both physicochemically (structural, morphological, thermal, optical and mechanical) and biologically (antimicrobial and antioxidant activity).