Analysis of nutritional components of peas after sterilization treatment with gamma radiation

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neelma Munir ◽  
Sundas Moazzam ◽  
Rukhama Haq ◽  
Faiza Saleem ◽  
Shagufta Naz

In the present study, peas were exposed to three different doses of gamma radiation i.e. 1, 1.5, 2.5 kGy. The nutritional value of peas after radiation was analyzed to determine the effect of gamma radiation on proximate composition. In the light of results, it was found that 1 kGy is optimized dose that has little effect on the nutritional value of peas. At 1 kGy the sensory properties remain unchanged and the shelf life of peas was increased up to 9 days at room temperature.

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 934-944
Author(s):  
Neelma Munir ◽  
Mehreen Tahir ◽  
Shagufta Naz

Background: Guava (Psidium guajava L.) fruit is an important part of our diet and valuable for consumption as a source of healthy nutrients. Due to its perishable nature, it has a high decaying rate with an economic loss if not treated properly with suitable measures. Objectives: During the recent year, radiation technology gained popularity at a global level for treating foods to achieve better quality and long-lasting shelf life. Recent studies focus on the use of radiation treatment for guava to enhance its shelf life. Methods: Treatment of two local guava cultivars Gola and Surahi with gamma radiation at doses of 0.10 kGy, 0.25 kGy and 0.5 kGy and their effect was investigated on the microbial load and nutritional value. Results: Furthermore, the effect of gamma radiation on fruit shelf life, decay percentage, organoleptic qualities, and nutrient parameters including moisture, mineral ash, fat, fibre, protein and carbohydrate content was determined. Conclusion: Hence this study was helpful in optimizing the dose of gamma radiation for our commonly grown guava cultivars to enhance their shelf life.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. e127997217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Helena Walter de Santana ◽  
Lucas Lima Luiz ◽  
Pamela da Silva Pasquim ◽  
Leticia de Fatima Bertachi Pinto ◽  
Flavia de Almeida Bergonse Pereira ◽  
...  

Psychrotrophic microorganisms, especially Pseudomonas spp., are present in the microbiota of refrigerated milk as they can grow at refrigeration temperatures irrespective of their optimal growth temperature. Psychrotrophic counts ranging from 105 to 108 CFU/mL in refrigerated raw milk effect cheese quality, since the synthesized thermoresistant enzymes affect the nutritional value, sensory properties, and texture. Cheese is the dairy product with the highest growth rate in the food industry in Brazil in recent years and meets the current consumption trends of nutritious and practical foods. The objective of this review was to address the importance and influence of the psychrotrophic raw milk microbiota on the quality and sensory properties of cheese. The enzymes produced by psychrotrophic microorganisms lead to taste changes, undesirable clotting times, increased concentrations of free fatty acids and free amino acids, and a reduced shelf-life, in addition to negatively affecting cheese yields. Proteases from psychrotrophs are also associated with slicing problems and progressive loss of the elasticity of cheese, a bitter taste, and increased clotting times of cheese produced with pasteurized milk. On the other hand, their lipases increase the clotting time and have a negative effect on the sensory properties by providing a rancid, soap, metallic, or oxidized smell and taste. The control of the psychrotrophic population found in refrigerated raw milk contributes to better cheese production yields and desirable texture and sensory properties, which extends the shelf-life of cheese and improves consumer acceptance.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Ram Shovit Yadav

Quark was prepared from cow milk by the optimization of different parameters like concentration of rennet, sugar percentage and flavor types. The rennet concentration used for optimization was 0.00139 %, 0.00234 %, 0.00278 % and 0.00468 %. In terms of acidity, texture, flavor and appearance. 0.00234 percent rennet was found significantly best product. The concentration of sugar in quark was varied in different proportion viz. 2, 4 and 5 %, among these 4 % was ranked best with respect to sensory properties. Flavor optimization with vanilla 125ppm without color addition was preferred significantly. Though the high quality life (HQL) of the optimized product was 45 days in deep frozen condition (-20°C), 6 days in refrigerated condition (-4°C). Yet, the product remained acceptable up to 2 days at room temperature (33 ± 2°C) and up to 15 days in refrigerated condition.Sunsari Technical College Journal 2015, 2(1):38-43


2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
U.D. Enyidi ◽  
F.N. Joseph

The study evaluated effects of different processing methods (charcoal smoking, electric and gas drying) on proximate composition and stability status in fillets of Clarias gariepinus. The stability indices were evaluated after 60-days storage of the processed fish. Standard methods were employed in all the analyses. The results showed that electric-dried fillets recorded the highest protein content (16.97±0.12%), the lowest water activity (0.49±0.05mg/100g), the highest water resumption (60%) at room temperature and the lowest TVB-N value of 5.0±0.01mg/100g. Proximate analysis revealed that smoked fillets had the lowest protein content of 11.30±0.08%, the highest lipid (6.99±0.15%), the highest water activity 0.71±0.14 and the lowest water resumption at room temperature (36.5%). Fish fillets processed with gas oven had intermediate values of various indices tested when compared with other methods. Keywords: Smoking, electric drying, gas drying, shelf life, proximate composition


2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mosarrat Nabila Nahid ◽  
Gulshan Ara Latifa ◽  
Farzana Binte Farid ◽  
Mohajira Begum

Proximate composition of chapila fish (Gudusia chapra) was determined using two different treatments of smoke-drying. In salt treated smoke-dried chapila (S-C), moisture, crude protein, lipid and ash contents were found 5.31%, 46.47%, 29.05% and 19.92% respectively. The same parameters were 6.77%, 45.24%, 30.52% and 18.71% respectively in case of salt-garlic treated smokedried chapila (S+G-C) fish. During storage at room temperature (26-320C), the percentage of moisture was increased significantly whereas crude protein, lipid and ash contents were decreased. The values of moisture (%) content were increased 9.91% (8th months) in S-C and 10.74 % (16th months) in S+G-C respectively. The values of protein (%) content were decreased 44.81% (8th months) in S-C and 42.66% (16th months) in S+G-C respectively. Values of fat and ash (%) content were decreased 28.55% and 18.01% (8th months) respectively in S-C and 28.75% and 17.34% (16th months) respectively in S+G-C. The overall study showed that the smoke cured fish treated with salt-garlic had longer shelf life and found better for preservation.Bangladesh J. Zool. 42(2): 205-209, 2014


Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 2815
Author(s):  
Federico Bianchi ◽  
Elisabetta Lomuscio ◽  
Corrado Rizzi ◽  
Barbara Simonato

Grape pomace (GP), is the main winemaking by-product and could represent a valuable functional food ingredient being a source of bioactive compounds, like polyphenols. Polyphenols prevent many non-communicable diseases and could contrast the oxidation reaction in foods. However, the high content in polyunsaturated fatty acid, the described pro-oxidant potential action of some polyphenols and the complex interactions with other components of matrices during food processing must be considered. Indeed, all these factors could promote oxidative reactions and require focused and specific assay. The aims of this study were to evaluate the effects of GP powder (GPP) addition (at 0%, 5% and 10% concentrations) in breadsticks formulations both on the antioxidant activity at room temperature during storage and on the shelf-life by the OXITEST predictive approach. GPP fortification increased the total polyphenols content and the antioxidant activities of breadsticks. FRAP reduced during the first two days of storage at room temperature, TPC increased during the 75 days, while ABTS showed a slight progressive decrease. However, GP negatively influenced OXITEST estimated shelf-life of breadsticks, incrementing the oxidation rate. In conclusion, even if GP fortification of breadsticks could improve the nutritional value of the products, the increased commercial perishability represents a drawback that must be considered.


LWT ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 112088
Author(s):  
Salma Barkaoui ◽  
Melika Mankai ◽  
Najla B. Miloud ◽  
Mokhtar Kraïem ◽  
Joana Madureira ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 6133-6141
Author(s):  
Ceja León Edna Sofía ◽  
Sánchez Saavedra Ma. Guadalupe ◽  
Cárdenas Pérez Ricardo ◽  
Loeza Lara Pedro Damian ◽  
Núñez Oregel Verónica

La tortilla de maíz (Zea mays L.), es la base de la alimentación mexicana, por su alto valor nutricional, no obstante, dado el nivel calórico que presenta se buscan alternativas que disminuyan este contenido. Una opción es adicionarle nopal, lo que disminuye el nivel calórico y proporciona beneficios importantes tales como, buena fuente de fibra dietética, actividad antioxidante, efecto prebiótico y con ello, es una alternativa para prevención de enfermedades crónicas degenerativas. Sin embargo, dada la alta actividad acuosa del nopal disminuye considerablemente la vida de anaquel de la tortilla, ocasionando deterioro significativo en pocos días. Para revertir tal efecto existen conservadores químicos como: el benzoato de sodio y ácido cítrico y conservadores biológicos como: las gomas arábigas, guar, xantana y el quitosano, que favorecen la baja actividad acuosa y permiten estabilizar de manera importante un alimento. Aunado al interés de la población de una disminución del consumo calórico también existe la preocupación de consumir alimentos libres de patógenos y la menor cantidad de aditivos posibles.  Por lo anterior, en este trabajo se analizan diferentes conservadores químicos y biológicos con la finalidad de alargar la vida de anaquel de la tortilla de nopal con la mínima dosis posible. Para ello, a 1 kg de masa se agregó el agente conservante en diferentes concentraciones, se homogeneizó y posteriormente se elaboraron las tortillas a partir de 30 g de la masa, se dejó alcanzar la temperatura ambiente, empacaron y almacenaron a 25 °C y 4 °C, se registró diariamente el estado de la tortilla hasta observar cambios desfavorables. Se obtuvieron resultados con una duración de 5 días a temperatura ambiente con aditivos diferentes y de 25 y 37 días a temperatura de 4°C.   Corn tortilla (Zea mays L.) is the basis of Mexican food, due to its high nutritional value; however, given its high caloric content, alternatives are being sought to reduce this content. One option is to add nopal, which reduces the caloric level and provides important benefits such as a good source of dietary fiber, antioxidant activity, prebiotic effect and thus is an alternative for the prevention of chronic degenerative diseases. However, due to the high aqueous activity of nopal, the tortilla's shelf life decreases considerably, causing significant deterioration in a few days. To reverse this effect, there are chemical preservatives such as sodium benzoate and citric acid and biological preservatives such as gums arabic, guar, xanthan and chitosan, which favor the low water activity and can significantly stabilize a food. In addition to the population's interest in reducing caloric intake, there is also the concern of consuming food free of pathogens and the least amount of additives possible.  Therefore, in this work, different chemical and biological preservatives are analyzed in order to extend the shelf life of nopal tortillas with the minimum possible dose. For this purpose, the preservative agent was added to 1 kg of dough in different concentrations, homogenized and then the tortillas were made from 30 g of dough, allowed to reach room temperature, packed and stored at 25 °C and 4 °C, and the tortilla condition was recorded daily until unfavorable changes were observed. Results were obtained with a shelf life of 5 days at room temperature with different additives and 25 and 37 days at 4°C.


2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
PIYUSH MISHRA ◽  
DEVENDRA KUMAR BHATT

Pasta was prepared by incorporation of Ocimum sanctum (Basil) for better textural and sensory properties. The pasta was incorporated with the leaf extract of Ocimum sanctum at different concentrations of control, 5, 10, and 15.The natural antioxidants present in the O. sanctum leaf powder that was incorporated in the fruit leather showed extended shelf-life over three months when compared with control, without any added preservative at ambient temperature. Also the nutritional stability of the product was studied under two flexible packages of polypropylene and polyester out of that the products packed in polypropylene showed better storage stability .


2011 ◽  
pp. 151-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijana B. Saka ◽  
Julianna F. Gyura ◽  
Aleksandra Mišan ◽  
Zita I. Šereš ◽  
Biljana S. Pajin ◽  
...  

The antioxidant activity of cookies prepared by the addition of sugarbeet dietary fibers was investigated in order to estimate their influence on functional characteristics and shelf-life of cookies. Treated fiber (TF) was obtained from sugarbeet by extraction with sulfurous acid (75 °C at pH = 5.7during 60 min) and treatment with hydrogen peroxide (20 g/LH2O2 at pH = 11 during 24 h). The fiber obtained was dried (80 °C), ground and sieved. TF was investigated in comparison with commercially available Fibrex®. The cookies were prepared by the addition of 0, 7, 9 and 11% of sugarbeet dietary fiber as a substitute for wheat flour in the formulation of cookies. The antioxidant properties of cookies were tested every 7 days using a DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl) radical scavenging activity test during 6 weeks of storage at room temperature (23 ± 1 ºC). The obtained results indicated that substitution of wheat flour with Fibrex® in the formulation of cookies upgraded the antioxidant activity, i.e. the functional characteristics of Fibrex®-enriched cookies and could prolong their shelf-life. In contrast, TF did not increase the antioxidant activity of TF-enriched cookies. The better antioxidant activities of Fibrex®-enriched cookies could be attributed to the presence of ferulic acid.


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