A dynamic method for kinetic model of ascorbic acid degradation during air dehydration of pretreated pineapple slices

International Food Research Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 555-560

  Karim, O R ^a   Adebowale, A A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Drying; Kinetic model; Pineapple; Pretreatment

Indexed keywords

ANANAS COMOSUS;

EID: 77949514579     PISSN: 19854668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. A.O.A.C. 2000. Official Methods of Analysis. 17th edition. Association of Official Analytical. Horowitz W. (ed) Vols. 1 and 2, AOAC International, Maryland.
2. Alvarez, C.A., Aguerre, R., Gomez, R., Vidales, S., Alzamora, S.M. and Gerschenson, L.N. 1995. Air Dehyration of strawberries: Effects of Blanching and Osmotic Pretreatments on the Kinetics of moisture Transport. Journal of Food Engineering 25 :167 - 179.
3. Bartoloméw, A.P. and Paul, R.E. 1986. Pineapple: In CRC Handbook of Fruit. Setand Development (Ed. Mousel, I.S.) Boca Raton, Florida. Pg. 371 - 378.
4. Bartoloméw, A.P. Pilar, R. and Foster, C. 1995. Pineapple fruit: morphological characteristics, chemical composition and sensory analysis of Red Spanish and Smooth cayenne cultivars. Food Chemistry 53: 75 - 79.
5. Catherine, L.L., Wolff, E. and Gilbert, H. 1992. Quality of Dehydrated cultivated mushrooms: A comparison Between Different Drying and Freeze-drying processes. Lebensio-Wiss-U. Technology 25: 334 - 339.
6. Forni, E., Torreggiani, D., Crivelli, G., Maestrelli, A., Bertolo, G, and Santelli, F. 1990. Influence of osmosis time on the quality of dehydrofrozen kiwi fruit. Acta Horticulture 82: 425 - 433.
7. Karim, O.R. 2005. "Effect of pre-treatment on drying kinetic and quality attributes of air-dehydrated pineapple slices". An unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.
8. Karim, O.R., Awonorin S.O. and Sanni L.O. 2008. Effect of pretreatments on quality attributes of pretreated and dehydrated pineapple slices. Journal of Food Science and Technology 6(4). P 158-165.
9. Levi, A., Ramirez - Matinez, J.R. and Paudua, H. 1980. The influence of heat and sulphur dioxide treatments on some quality characteristics of intermidiate moisture banana. Journal of Food Technology 55: 557 - 66.
10. McMinn, W.A.M. and Magee, T.R.A. 1997. Physical characteristics of Dehydrated potatoes. Journal of Food Engineering 33: 49 - 55.
11. Mishkin M.A. 1983. Dynamic modeling, simulation and optimization of quality changes in air-drying of foodstuffs. Ph.D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
12. Osundahunsi, O.F. 2008. Kinetics of ascorbic acid degradation in acseptically packaged commercial orange juice produced locally in Nigeria. Bowen Journal of Agriculture 2: 1-7.
13. Raoult-Wack, A.L., Boltz, O., Gulbert, S. and Rios, S. 1991. Simultaneous water and solute transport in shrinking media Part I. Application to dewatering and impregnation soaking process analysis osmotic dehydration. Drying Technology 9. 589 - 612.
14. Robbers, M.R., Singh, P. and Cunha, L. M. 1997. Osmotic- convective dehydrofreezing process for drying Kiwi fruit. Journal of Food Science 62(5): 1039 - 1042.
15. Saguy, L., Mizrahi, S., Villota, R.,and Karel, M. 1978. Accelerated method for determining the kinetic model for ascorbic acid loss during dehydration. Journal of Food Science 43:1861.
16. Solanke, O.E. and Awonorin, S.O. 2002. Kinetics of vitamin C degradation in some tropical green leafy vegetanles during blanching. Nigerian Food Journal. 20: 24-31.
17. Vaccarezza, L.M., Lombadi, J.L. and Chrife. 1974. Kinetics of moisture movement during air-drying of sugar beet root. Journal of Food Technology 9: 317 - 327.