A trend that has apparently increased in recent decades has been consumer demand for high quality foods based on convenience with minimum requirements for preparation time . Frozen part-baked breads have the advantage in relation to conventional breads of their short preparation time since they need only to be removed from the freezer and placed in the oven . Marketing outlets such as bakeries supermarket and convenience stores are a large market for frozen bakery
products, together with the consumer who wants to bake bread at home, but is discouraged to spend the time and effort required to perform the whole process for producing them