Solar cabinet drying of bitter gourd: Optimization of pretreatments and quality evaluation

International Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Jadhav, Deepak Baburao ^a   Visavale, Ganesh Lotanrao ^a   Sutar, Parag P ^a   Annapure, Uday S ^a   Thorat, Bhaskar Narayan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

bitter gourd slices; blanching; hardness and chlorophyll retention; modeling; sulfitation

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR VELOCITIES; BITTER GOURD; CABINET DRYERS; CENTRAL COMPOSITE DESIGNS; DRIED PRODUCTS; DRYING CONSTANTS; FREEZE-DRIED PRODUCTS; MODELING; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MOISTURE DIFFUSIVITY; OPEN SUN DRYING; OPTIMUM PROCESS CONDITIONS; POTASSIUM METABISULFITE; PRE-TREATMENTS; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; QUALITY EVALUATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; SULFITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BLANCHING; CHLOROPHYLL; CURING; HARDNESS; MOISTURE; OPTIMIZATION; PORPHYRINS; POTASSIUM; SUN;

DRYING;

MOMORDICA CHARANTIA;

EID: 77956359908     PISSN: 15563758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1556-3758.1503     Document Type: Article

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