Fortification of cookies with peanut skins: effects on the composition, polyphenols, antioxidant properties, and sensory quality.

Food fortification may be carried out to improve the health status of consumers. In this study, peanut skins were added at 1.3, 1.8, and 2.5% to cookies to increase their polyphenol content. Insoluble fiber was increased by up to 52%. In addition, total phenolic content and the corresponding antioxidant capacities also increased as evidenced by increases of epicatechin and procyanidin dimers A and B. In addition, trimers and tetramers of procyanidins were identified only in peanut skin-fortified cookies. Addition of 2.5% peanut skins rendered an increase of up to 30% in the total polyphenols as evaluated by high-performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection-electrospray ionization multistage mass spectrometry (HPLC-DAD-ESI-MS(n)). Sensory evaluation results demonstrated that peanut skin-fortified cookies were well accepted, which suggests that the present formulation may lend itself for commercial exploitation.