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JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Volume 83, Issue 15, Pages 1613-1616Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.1602
Keywords
water activity; glass transition; microencapsulation; mesquite gum (Prosopis juliflora); storage temperature
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Flavour microcapsules containing amorphous carbohydrate as wall material can undergo changes such as crystallisation, clumping, sticking and caking during handling and storage. Such physical changes may lead to the release of entrapped flavours. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of storage temperature and water activity on caking, stickiness and glass transition temperatures and to evaluate the relative degree of protection provided to orange peel oil entrapped in mesquite (Prosopis juliflora) gum by spray drying. The powders were stored at water activities (a(w)) ranging from 0.108 to 0.972 at 25 and 35degreesC. The surface caking temperature (T-sc) and advance caking temperature (T-ac) were determined by the modified ampoule and sealed glass tube methods respectively. The glass transition temperature was determined by differential scanning calorimetry. Changes in the amount of encapsulated oil were determined by Clevenger hydrodistillation. As expected, both T-sc and T-ac decreased with increasing storage a(w). Above a(w) 0.628 the powders caked and collapsed during storage at 35degreesC. Below a(w) 0.628 the capsules were not damaged and high retention levels (above 90%) were obtained. Increasing a(w) in the range 0.743-0.972 caused progressive dissolution of the wall polymer, and the retention level dropped sharply. The volatiles are protected and retained by mesquite gum as long as the capsule structure remains intact. (C) 2003 Society of Chemical Industry.
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