“…Following up previous research regarding the global quality of several ready complex foods Barbiroli & Mazzaracchio, 1994;Barbiroli & Mazzaracchio, 2000;Barbiroli, Mazzaracchio, & Cavana, 1984;Barbiroli, Mazzaracchio, & Cavana, 1989;Barbiroli, Mazzaracchio, & Fiorini, 1990;Barbiroli, Mazzaracchio, Savio, & Ballini, 1990;Barbiroli, Raggi, & Mazzaracchio, 1990;Barbiroli, Santoprete, & Savio, 1984;Mazzaracchio, 1992;Mazzaracchio & Barbiroli, 1990a;Mazzaracchio & Barbiroli, 1990b), this research has the purpose to investigate stir-fry products, based on pasta, in order to broaden the knowledge of their main factors of quality; in particular, it seemed important to observe the behaviour of pasta samples that were treated with or without vegetable oil (after cooking and before freezing) and the relationship between pasta and sauce after warming, just before eating. For this reason, two simple tests useful for a macroscopically observation were used.…”