“…Nevertheless, fat substitution produced thicker cookies, as observed in Figure 1, but this effect was more evident in wheat cookies. Previous studies also found a decrease in cookie diameter when reducing the fat content (Blanco-Canalis et al, 2018;Pareyt, Brijs and Delcour, 2010;Rodríguez-Garcia et al, 2013;Sudha et al, 2007). This effect was attributed to the inhibitory action of fats on the gluten network, which generates harder doughs (Pareyt, Brijs and Delcour, 2010), since fat significantly affects neither cookie dough setting nor collapse (Pareyt et al, 2009).…”