Drying of pineapple by microwave-vacuum with osmotic pretreatment

Drying Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1556-1561

  Correa J L G ^a   Dev, S R S ^b   Gariepy, Y ^b   Raghavan, G S V ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Microwave drying; Osmotic pretreatment; Pineapple drying

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL COMPOSITE DESIGNS; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; DRYING RATES; IMMERSION TIME; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MICROWAVE CAVITY; MICROWAVE DRYING; MICROWAVE-VACUUM; MOISTURE LOSS; OSMOTIC DEHYDRATION; PINEAPPLE DRYING; PRE-TREATMENT; REHYDRATION CAPACITY; REHYDRATION COEFFICIENTS; SUGAR CONCENTRATION; VISUAL QUALITIES; WATER LOSS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

DEHYDRATION; DEWATERING; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; OSMOSIS; SHRINKAGE; SUGARS; TEXTURES; VACUUM;

DRYING;

EID: 80051628604     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2011.582558     Document Type: Article

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