Effect of Hemp Seed Oil Addition on the Rheological Properties of Dough and Bread
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The overall quality of the paper is low. I would not recommend accepting this paper.
Extensive editing of the English language and style are required.
The authors need to redesign the research appropriately.
Author Response
Thank you for comments. See the attachment
Author Response File: 
Author Response.docx
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors,
Ms ID: applsci-1584911
The presented manuscript aimed to determine the rheological properties and quality of bread with the addition of hemp oil.
Specific comment on the manuscript is as follows:
- Please change the title to: “Effect of hemp seed oil addition on the rheological properties of dough and bread”
- Lines 10-12: In the subsection “Abstract” unjustified using the first 2 sentences. The work didn’t concern the nutritional value assessment.
- The subsection “Abstract” needs to be rewritten, having regard to the aim of the study, the main methods or treatments applied, summarize the article’s main findings and Conclusions.
- Line 221: What % do Authors think about? w/v, v/v??
- The subsection 2.1: Was the assessment of the flour carried out by the manufacturer? This is unclear. Please, complete the information about manufacturer of used ingredients.
- Subsection 2.2.1: please complete the baking time and missing information about used equipment’s producers.
- Subsection 2.2.4: please complete information about statistical program’s producer.
- There is a lack of appropriate references in subsections 2.2.2 and 2.2.3.1.
- The subsection “Introduction” needs to be improved. It is too long. This part of the manuscript tackles a lot of issues related to the nutritional enrichment of bakery products, which isn’t the purpose of this study.
- Too many figures in the text of the manuscript. It should be presented broadly in order of their importance (optionally, you can place some figures in Appendixes or Supplementary Materials).
- What is the application significance of the obtained results?
From my standpoint, the scope of the presented manuscript is too poor. The study carried out should be supplemented, for example by results of a sensory evaluation of the products or by analysis of the proximate composition, to obtain a multidimensional study.
I’m sorry to announce that, the presented manuscript with current poor scope, isn’t appropriate for publication in Journal – Applied Sciences, given the above aspects. However, the adjusted article can be reconsidered after major revision in the future.
Author Response
Thank you for comments. See the attachment
Author Response File: Author Response.doc
Reviewer 3 Report
The aim of this work was to evaluate the rheological properties of the dough and the characteristics of bread with the addition of hemp seed oil. However, the points given below should be taken into consideration by the authors before publication.
- Abstract needs to be re-organized and should include justification, objective, methods, results with statistical significance and conclusion. The abstract could be strengthened by the addition of quantitative data.
- All methods should be cited.
Author Response
Thank you for comments. See the attachment.
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Reviewer 4 Report
Reviewer report
Title: Research on the influence of the addition of 2 hemp seed oil on the rheological properties of dough and the quality of bread
Abstract:
NOT Appropriate
Please add the methods and the parameters used for determining the textural and rheological properties of dough/bread.
Please conclude your basic results in terms of rheology/texture. Because the title of the manuscript focused on the rheology/texture features but the abstract focused on THC amount.
Keywords:
NOT Appropriate
Please add ‘hempseed oil’ and ‘bread’ and ‘dough’. These are enough and more effective for future citations.
Introduction:
NOT Appropriate. There was a big structural problem in here.
Why did the authors talk about Romanians or Romania? Line 24-25. Again in Line 36. ‘The bakery products are the basis of the food culture’ was enough. This is a more common statement for whole researchers. Not only Romania.
Line 56-65: This is a discussion paragraph. The author may use those to express the importance of substitution with hemp seed oil by citing the references.
The same weakness was about the nutritional side of hempseed oil. The authors may give all the importance of it in ONE sentence with ONE citation.
The information part contains 1) why the author select this topic to study?, 2) what’s the importance of hemp seed oil, and basically 3) rheology and texture of dough and bread and their quality. The final paragraph needs to summarize the literature gap, your hypothesis & methods and why.
Please express clearly your purpose or elaborate on your aim.
The aim of this study was to evaluate ……. for what … or why ?
Material:
NOT Appropriate
If your samples/or any raw materials were collected from Romania, please write it here. What’s the meaning of ‘local’
Methods:
NOT Appropriate
Where was the sensory analysis method mentioned in Line 165?
Please clearly determine your quantitative variables and the qualitative ones. This style of paper was confusing and hard to read/review.
I cannot see the Alveograph analysis section under this part. Line 143 (please separate and retype it)
Please describe your correlation test method in detail.
The author used PCA, but again, they didn’t describe its method.
Results:
NOT Appropriate
General comments:
Please check the English quality of the paper. It needs proofreading.
Please use more references to discuss.
Please renovate the statistic method and discussion sections.
There are too many typos and format mistakes. Kindly check them.
Comments for author File: 
Comments.pdf
Author Response
Thank you for comments. See the attachment.
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Reviewer 5 Report
Dear Authors, the manuscript is scientifically sound and is well written. I would like to recommend this paper for publication in Applied Sciences after minor revisions due to the revisions and clarifications mentioned in the pdf document. Revisions and clarifications are marked in the pdf document as comments. Best reagrds!
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
Thank you for comments. See the attachment.
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors,
The aim of the study was to determine the influence of hemp seed oil on the rheological properties of the dough and the properties of white and black wheat flour bread.
Majority of previous comments have been taken into account. The most important is that the scope of the study has been enriched with sensory evaluation of investigated products. I have no objections to the new version of the manuscript.
From my point of view the new version of manuscript is appropriate for publication in Journal Applied Sciences, based on the above comments.
Author Response
Thank you! See attachment
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Reviewer 3 Report
no comments
Author Response
Thank you! See attachment
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Reviewer 4 Report
Thank you for the authors due to the essential revisions. But, the manuscript has still some weaknesses.
Please find my general comments below:
- There are too many punctuations, spelling, and grammar mistakes. It still needs to be proof-editing.
- Statistic methods are not adequate. a) It is not clear how did you perform correlation analysis? (which parameters did you correlate? You mentioned in the text just qualitative and quantitative parameters. What were they? Please elaborate on these.) b) The authors added a PCA section without any detail on how they applied it (on the basis of their method), and without any reference. Please give in details.
- there are too many figures (13), and this is not formal. The authors may convert Fig 1 and 2 into Fig 1a. and Fig1b. They are all bread pictures. Same thing for Figure 3-7. You may convert these such as Figure 2a, 2b, 2c..... into one Figure.
Author Response
Thank you! See attachment
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Round 3
Reviewer 4 Report
Thank you for the revisions.
The 'correlation' analysis is a spesific area in statistics.
PCA is a discriminant/classification analysis.
Please eleborate your sentence in line 135-137... Correlation between.... Parameter.... With.... Parameter...
If you perform a spesific correlation analyse, please describe it in thos method section.
If you did not perform it, please dont use correlation term.
Maybe, you can write ' to determine the relationship between..... And.....
And exprees your variables or parameters in this section CLEARLY.
Author Response
Thank you! Please see the attachment
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
