This study aimed to determine the effect of different drying methods on physical and chemical characteristics Senduduk fruit powder best method in producing then applied as a natural dye food. used an exploratory with three treatments (drying oven dryer, vacuum oven, sun dryer). The result showed that use resulted senduduk this was using characteristics, is yield 15.57%, ºHue 45.27, long time d...

African leafy vegetables are rich in micronutrients that can help solve hidden hunger problems Sub-Saharan Africa. However, their availability is limited due to seasonality and high post-harvest losses, which account for about 50%. In the field survey, we observed wilted usually discarded from Morogoro Region, Tanzania markets. That loss also contributes of resources used cultivate transport ve...

Seed extraction and drying methods are important procedures employed after harvesting fruits of African eggplant as these affect the seed quality. This study sought to evaluate physiological quality two cultivars subjected various durations natural fermentation different methods. In first study, were fermented for 0, 6, 12, 24 48 h before extraction. second experiment, seeds extracted sun/24 h;...

the aim of this study was investigation of the effects of pretreatments (hot water blanching and chemical treatments) by hot air and sun drying methods on mass transfer kinetics during red chili pepper rehydration phenomenon. for these purposes fick's second law and peleg model were applied for modeling of red chili pepper rehydration phenomenon. the results revealed that, peleg model coul...

beans (Gloriosa superba L.) P.Suganya, R.Kailappan and S.Parveen *Department of Food Processing and Preservation Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore-641108, India 2 Department of Food and Agricultural Process Engineering, AEC&RI, TNAU, Coimbatore -641003, India corresponding authors email id: [email protected]

The present work presents a hybrid solar thermal drying of Tilapia fish to improve the product quality and satisfy importers. developed dryer utilized direct drying, air heater backup unit which sustains process during night, cloudy rainy weather conditions. Besides, new feature utilizes flue gas exhausted from enhance updraft in chamber by re-injection gases chimney. initial moisture content u...

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It is the oldest and most common traditional food preservation method known to dry by laying products under sun. However, if product in direct contact with sun light, there a decrease color nutrient values of product. To solve these problems, solar dryers have been developed which can be utilized due indirectly effect In this study, kiwi rings were dried using osmosolar dehydration as combinati...