Pilot Scale Roller Milling of Chickpeas into a De-Hulled Coarse Meal and Fine Flour

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Overall, the work presented in this paper is interesting because of the reliable analysis. This manuscript was recommended to be accepted as it is.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Reviewed article concerns pilot scale roller milling of chickpeas into a de-hulled coarse meal and fine flour and is write in accordance with generally accepted standards of the scientific works. After careful reading of the submitted text there are some substantive remarks that should be taken into consideration by the Authors to improve reviewed text.

1.      Literature review should be improved providing more references to recent works from the area of described study.

2.      The novelty of given approach should be emphasized in introduction.

3.      I suggest providing all main parameters and conditions of experimental test in a form of table.

4.      Presented study widely covers defined scientific problem and with experimental investigations provides proper background for given conclusions, however deeper scientific consideration of obtained results referred to the basic phenomena in analyzed processes should be given.

5.      In the discussion section should be provide more references to already known results from literature.

6.      The strengths and limitations of the obtained results and applied methods should be clearly described.

7.      I suggest providing the main conclusions as numbered sentences and refer to specific values (results of analysis) as well as basic phenomena that cause described results.

8.      The conclusions should highlight the novelty and contribution to the state of the knowledge in given area.

 

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Reviewer 3 Report

The authors proposed an interesting work about the use of roller mills on chickpeas, which was actually not deep investigated since now.

I would like to suggest the authors to take into account my comments to improve the quality of their work.

1) In the introduction you should mention about the energetic cost of varies techniques. This must be done not in deep details, but taking into account what it is mentioned in literature. Actually, the political situation forces all country to consider this aspect and specially in Grain Science where the supplying of food at low energetic cost is of fundamental importance.

2) All formula have this useless dash line that should  be removed;

3 line 196, 207 look that you have highlighted the formula.

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Conclusions must be precise and confirmed by the obtained results of the research, so it is necessary to refer in the conclusions to the numerical values - the results of the analysis.

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