drying foodstuffs can have negative effects on quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the products, including porosity and bulk density. therefore, novel technologies can be used to improve these characteristics. in this study, apparent density changes during drying grapes pretreated with ultrasound for 10, 20 and 30 minutes, and carboxymethyl cellulose (cmc) at three concentrations of...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of ultrasound and drying pretreatments on apparent density as well as modeling apparent density during deep-fat frying of potato slices. ultrasound pretreatment was performed at 28 and 40 khz for 15 min and drying pretreatment were conducted at 80°c for 8 and 15 min. then, the frying process was done at 150, 170 and 190°c for 60, 120, 180 and ...

introduction drying foods, fruits and vegetables is a suitable method to reduce post-harvest losses of the crops. drying is considered as a simultaneous heat and mass transfer process. various physical, chemical and nutritional changes occur during drying of foods and are affected by a number of internal and external heat and mass transfer parameters. external parameters may include temperature...

A solar drier assisted with evacuated tube collector is designed and developed to study and examine the drying Kinetics of muscat grapes in Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India.  During the drying period, temperature at various places, relative humidity, wind velocity and mass of the sample are measured on hourly basis.  The outlet temperature of the collector and temperature within the chamber varies f...

introduction: potato is raw food stuff with high popularity worldwide when deep fried. deep frying is a fast budget process used for preparing savory food. in this process, oil is used both as a heating intermediate and as an ingredient producing calorific products. nutrition has become a major health concern, particularly in developmental countries where obesity has turned into an ever-increas...

Drying is one of the widely used methods of food preservation and it is a sensitive food processing operation due to undesirable changes in the quality of dried product. In this study the effect of osmotic dyhedration and ultrasound pretreatment prior to convective drying on quality properties of apple slices was investigated. Apple slices were pretreated by osmotic dehydration in two concentra...