| dc.description.abstract | The high nutritional properties of eggs make them ideal for humans whith special dietary requirement. They are also suitable for nutritional improvement of several kinds of foods. At the present, eggs products are processed in the egg industry. Eggs are used in the preparation of many kinds of food products. The most well-known uses of eggs are based on whipping of egg white which produces lighter and airier products like angel cake. Refrigerator with generally recognized people can keep egg quality. The main aims of this research was to know the influence of storage times in the refrigerator toward egg quality, egg weight loss, albumen foaming ability and stability. In this research, storage times used were 0, 7, 14,21, and 28 days. Data on egg white were analyzed by using descriptive method (albumen foaming ability and stability) and regression analysis (egg quality and egg weight loss). The result of this research showed that egg weight loss increased and egg quality (Haugh unit value) decrease slightly with increacing storage times. Albumen foaming ability and stability decrease after storing for 7 days at refrigerator temperature. Keywords: egg, refrigerator, storage, albumen foaming ability and stability | en |
