conclusions although quince seeds dried mucilage by lyophilization had less yield amounts yet in view of purity and physicochemical and mechanical properties, it was significantly better than mucilage prepared by the oven method (p < 0.05). results the yield value of mucilage from the warm method was about three folds greater than the amount from the cold method. the phytochemical, physicochemi...

in this study, the effect of edible coating and osmotic dehydration, as pre-treatments before drying of cucurbit, were investigated. cucurbit samples were cut spirally and coated by carboxy methyl cellulose (cmc) 1% and ascorbic acid 0.1% solutions and then processed by osmotic dehydration. proportion of sample to solution was 1:10 and the solution containing sucrose %45, salt%25 and citric aci...

Carrots have one of the highest levels of carotene, and they are rich in vitamins, fiber and minerals. However, since fresh carrots wilt rapidly after harvest under inappropriate storage conditions, drying has been used to improve their shelf life and retain nutritional quality. Therefore, to further investigate the potential of this method, carrot slices were dried in an EHD system in order to...

Drying of wild pomegranate seeds was carried out by using various drying methods to evaluate the best and feasible method of drying and to produce a value added product “anardana”. The various drying methods used were vacuum drying, oven drying, sun drying, poly-tent house drying and room drying. The experimental results showed that out of all the drying methods, sun drying method for anardana ...

A solar drying was investigated as one of perspective techniques for fish processing in Cambodia. The solar drying was compared to conventional drying in electric oven. Five typical Cambodian fish species were selected for this study. Mean solar drying temperature and drying air relative humidity were 55.6 °C and 19.9%, respectively. The overall solar dryer efficiency was 12.37%, which is typic...