A New Drying Approach to Enhance Quality of Konjac Glucomannan Extracted from Amorphophallus muelleri

Drying Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 851-860

  Impaprasert, Rarisara ^a   Borompichaichartkul, Chaleeda ^a   Srzednicki, George ^b  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amorphophallus muelleri; Hot air drying; Konjac glucomannan; Microwave vacuum drying; Porosity; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; POROSITY; VACUUM; VACUUM TECHNOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

AMORPHOPHALLUS MUELLERI; DEHYDRATED PRODUCTS; HOT AIR DRYING; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; KONJAC GLUCOMANNAN; MICROSTRUCTURE OBSERVATION; MICROWAVE - VACUUM DRYING; PARTICLE DENSITIES;

DRYING;

EID: 84899757388     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2013.871728     Document Type: Article

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