Comparison of the effect of microwave freeze drying and microwave vacuum drying upon the process and quality characteristics of potato/banana re-structured chips

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 570-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Jiang ◽  
Min Zhang ◽  
Arun S. Mujumdar ◽  
Rui-Xin Lim
Author(s):  
Takaharu Tsuruta ◽  
Takuma Ogawa ◽  
Ryosuke Abe ◽  
Hirofumi Tanigawa

High quality drying of therapeutic protein-solution is important in medical and pharmaceutical processing.  Freeze-drying is mostly used, but it takes a long drying-time and causes damages of protein structures.  In order to improve the drying quality, we propose a microwave vacuum drying performed at ambient temperatures under low-pressure conditions.  We are focusing on the Parma-Zyme method for the evaporative drying of protein solutions such as egg white or lysozyme with vitrification. Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is used to detect protein conformation changes due to the drying, and it is found that the ambient temperature drying can preserve the protein conformation. Keywords: Microwave vacuum drying; Freeze-drying; Therapeutic protein; Egg white; Lysozyme 


2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (15) ◽  
pp. 1840-1847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing Zhou ◽  
Min Zhang ◽  
Zhongxiang Fang ◽  
Yaping Liu

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 621-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanyan Lao ◽  
Min Zhang ◽  
Sakamon Devahastin ◽  
Yufen Ye

Author(s):  
Anna Michalska ◽  
Krzysztof Lech ◽  
Adam Figiel ◽  
Grzegorz P. Łysiak

Abstract The aim of the study was to determine the influence of four different growing locations of apples cv. ‘Jonagold’ in Europe on the drying kinetics and the physical properties of dried apple slices. The drying methods applied in the study (freeze-drying, convective drying, microwave-vacuum drying and combined drying) significantly affected the drying time, which was the shortest in the case of microwave vacuum drying. The geographical origin of the apples affected the chemical and physical properties of the raw material used for drying, and, consequently, the drying time. Water activity of dried samples was connected with the final dry matter, regardless of the geographical origin of the apples. Freeze-drying resulted in the lightest in colour products (L*), whereas microwave-vacuum dried products had the highest levels of yellow pigments (b*). The highest chroma and browning index values were noted for microwave-vacuum dried samples and were strongly influenced by the drying temperature. The mechanical properties of the apple slices were more dependent on the drying method and temperature of the process than on the geographical origin when the temperature exceeded 83 °C.


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