Volume Determination

Volume determination is an important and easy-to-do procedure for assessing the impact of inclusion of ingredients or process setup in bread and in other bakery products. Rapeseed displacement procedure is the oldest and widely diffused procedure used for this analysis. However, it involves the use of volumeter, which is usually substituted with beaker and cylinders, and this allows to perform the volume determination of bread without any other specific instruments. Moreover, two different official methods based on laser scanning were proposed in the last 20 years.