Improving the quality characteristics of flour confectionery when adding vegetable puree for the sustainable development of food production

Abstract The confectionery industry is an independent production sector in the food processing industry. The purpose of the work is to improve the quality of products and expand the assortment of confectionery - cupcake, which consists in adding vegetable puree (pumpkin). The object of the study is the Dutch cupcake. In the Volgograd State Agrarian University at the Department of Processing Technologies and Food Safety, test baking of a cupcake confectionery with the addition of pumpkin puree was carried out. According to organoleptic and physico-chemical parameters, the cupcakes met the requirements of State Standard 15052-2014 “Cupcakes. General technical conditions”. When comparing the test samples, there are no significant differences, it differs in that the product with the addition of pumpkin puree has the smell and taste of pumpkin, and the porosity of the product decreases slightly, all this has a positive effect on the studied product. The profitability of the cupcake products with the addition of pumpkin puree is 1% higher than the control sample. A cupcake with the addition of pumpkin puree can be recommended as a preventive nutrition.