Drying is one of the processes that present higher costs in food processing. Pre-treatments are often used to reduce drying time and consequently its cost. In the past years, our group has studied the use of ultrasonic pre-treatments to induce structural changes in the fruit tissue as to improve the effective water diffusivity during air-drying and consequently reduce air-drying time. This stud...

PURPOSE To evaluate the frequency of banana sensitization and allergy among a group of atopic Egyptian children in relation to parental/self reports. METHODS This is a case-control study included 2 groups of allergic children with and without history of banana allergy, each included 40 patients. They were subjected to skin prick test (SPT) using commercial banana allergen extract and prick-pr...

The North American pawpaw [ Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal] is a tree fruit in the early stages of commercial production in the United States. This plant contains annonaceous acetogenins in the twigs, unripe fruit, seeds, roots, and bark tissues, which display antitumor, pesticidal, antimalarial, anthelmintic, piscicidal, antiviral, and antimicrobial effects, suggesting many potentially useful appl...

Banana is a plant with nutritious fruit and can help prevent stunting. plants are widely cultivated in East Kalimantan, but the type characterization has not been identified. The purpose of this study was to determine diversity banana Kalimantan characterize based on morphology. This research explorative nature by identifying directly field cultivars. Morphological stems, leaves carried out des...

What is the relative salience of different aspects of word meaning in the developing lexicon? The current study examines the time-course of retrieval of semantic and color knowledge associated with words during toddler word recognition: At what point do toddlers orient toward an image of a yellow cup upon hearing color-matching words such as "banana" (typically yellow) relative to unrelated wor...

Banana passion fruit production in Colombia contributes to the development of country’s economy as it generates income and provides raw material for agro-based industries. Profitability is a key aspect economic efficiency plays an important role farmer´s decision-making therefore; purpose study was determine different factors affecting profitability banana production. A descriptive, quantitativ...

Fruits and vegetables play very important role in our day-to-day life because of their nutrition parameters. In recent years organic cultivation is more popular as there demand for fruits vegetables. Due to high benefits considering the easily availability banana, it most demandable afforded by common man. Consumer decides quality banana based on physical characteristics. Simple experiment was ...

Abstract—High moisture content in fruits generates post-harvest problems such as mechanical, biochemical, microbial and physical losses. Dehydration, which is based on the reduction of water activity of the fruit, is a common option for overcoming such losses. However, regular hot air drying could affect negatively the quality properties of the fruit due to the long residence time at high tempe...