L'objectiu d'aquest treball ha sigut l'avaluació de l'efecte de l'aplicació de microones i un pretractament amb metabisulfit sòdic sobre la cinètica d'assecat i sobre alguns composts bioactius presents en l'albercoc, així ...

Consumer acceptance of dried apricots depends on them having an intense orange color, a gummy texture, and a characteristic flavor. In addition, the growing demand for healthy and nutritive foods has increased the interest ...

The effect of conventional and microwave pasteurization on the main flavonoids present in grapefruit juice and their stability throughout 2 months of refrigerated and frozen storage was evaluated. Individual flavonoids ...

Alternative methods with which to obtain grapefruit jams have been applied. These include the use of osmotic dehydration (OD) and/or microwave energy (MW), as an alternative to conventional heating, and the incorporation ...

Enzymes are naturally present in food and can cause product deterioration. For this reason,most food-processing steps try to reduce the enzymatic activity. The aimof thisworkwas to compare, in terms of both the inactivation of ...

In this work the authors have studied the effect of hot-air drying with or without a previous osmotic dehydration pretreatment to produce dried cut persimmon with a different geometry (slices and sectors). A kinetic study ...

[EN] The health properties of fruit are widely known. Powdered fruit may be a practical format to be offered to the consumer. Nevertheless, the process used to obtain the powder must ensure the maximum retention of the ...

The modified state diagram of freeze-dried grapefruit powder was obtained in order to determine the critical water content and critical water activity that cause the glass transition of the amorphous matrix at storage ...

The differences between the physicochemical (water content, water activity, pH, NaCl, fat, color, and texture) and sensory (descriptive analysis and consumer test) characteristics of cheeses made from the milk of goats fed ...

[EN] Spray-dried fruit powder may be an interesting alternative for the purposes of promoting fruit consumption among consumers. The use of carrier agents is especially necessary for the production of spray-dried fruit ...