Journal
JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE
Volume 86, Issue 6, Pages 2255-2263Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1750-3841.15750
Keywords
color; hygroscopicity; porosity; solubility; viscosity; wettability
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- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [AGL 2012-39103]
- Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad [AGL 2017-89251-R]
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This study compares freeze-drying and spray-drying techniques to select the better process for producing high-quality powdered grapefruit products. The addition of biopolymers can stabilize the product and positively impact its quality.
Freeze-drying and spray-drying are two techniques used to produce dehydrated food products. Both techniques are easy to use and offer high sensory, nutritive value, and functional quality to foods. However, both processes become difficult for foods with high sugar and acid content, such as fruits. This is because these products, once dehydrated, moisten quickly, causing a change in their physical properties, mainly in the mechanical aspects related to the start of a caking phenomenon. Therefore, incorporating high molecular weight biopolymers that act as facilitators or processors, prevent the structural collapse of the product. The aim of this study was to select the best process, between freeze-drying or spray-drying, to obtain a powdered grapefruit product with the higher quality. The impact of the biopolymers used to stabilize the powdered product was also tested. The properties analyzed were the solubility, wettability, hygroscopicity, porosity, and color of the powder together with the flow behavior, both in air and water. The results of this study show that using the freeze-drying technique, products have a better flow behavior, greater porosity, and a color more like fresh grapefruit. Biopolymers, especially when in combination, have a positive effect on the quality parameters studied. Practical Application The results of this study allow freeze-drying to be proposed as a process to obtain a grapefruit product with better properties, both powdered and rehydrated, than that obtained by spray-drying. On the other hand, although the incorporation of biopolymers is necessary to facilitate the process and stabilize the product, no significant differences have been found between the different formulations tested, although it seems that their combination favours some of the properties of the powder, such as solubility, hygroscopicity, wetting time and dispersibility.
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