The objective of the work was to study effect drying temperature on cup quality robusta coffee subjected mechanical in comparison with conventional sun drying. processed by wet (parchment coffee) and dry (cherry methods were at different regimes (40 oC, 50 oC 60 oC) a rotary dryer. results indicated that as increased, time reduced. Sun parchment took 48 hours (approximately seven days) attain d...

Summary The quality of black pepper (Piper nigrum L.), the ’king spices’, is largely dependent on postharvest handling and processing methods. Pungency aroma are most important qualities pepper, which attributed to its oleoresin volatile oils, respectively. Conventional open sun drying shade were tested for different pretreatment curing pepper. improvement reduction in duration exhibited sun-dr...

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Medical College, Calcutta, The dried pulp of the mango (Mangifera Indica) contains such a large amount of Citric Acid as to make this common fruit not at all an inefficient substitute for lime-juice when the latter cannot readily be obtained as an antiscorbutic. A quantitative analysis of three different samples of mango-pulp, which had been dried by exposure t...

Orphanides A., Goulas V., Gekas V. (2013): Effect of drying method on the phenolic content and antioxidant capacity of spearmint. Czech J. Food Sci., 31: 509–513. The changes in total phenolics, hydroxycinammic acid derivatives, and antioxidant properties of spearmint after five drying treatments (convection oven drying, freeze-drying, microwave drying, and air drying with the sun exposure and ...

The acha (Digitaria exile staff) grain was washed (tap water), sun dried, milled and sieved (400mn sieve aperture) to produce acha flour. The beniseed(Sesamum indicum) seeds were sorted, washed, sun dried, milled, defatted (using ethanol), dried and sieved (400mn sieve aperture) to produce beniseed flour. The defatted beniseed flour was substituted into the acha flour at 0-20% to produce benise...

Tagetes, a genus of flowering marigolds in the family Asteraceae (Compositeae), is reported to be a medicinal plant with hypotensive, spasmolytic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and antifungal properties. Tagetes minuta characteristically contains high concentrations of essential oils, flavonoids, polyphenols, and polysaccharides that interfere with DNA, causing erroneous or no PCR products....