Effect of various pretreatments on quality of osmo-convectively dehydrated carrot shreds
Vaidya Pallavi,
More Pramodini,
Handibag Ashwini
Abstract:Carrot is a very popular root crop grown all over the world for its delicious edible roots. Dehydration is most useful technique to prepare shelf stable products with longer shelf life. Osmotic dehydration is preferred over other drying methods due to its quality retention value in final product. Mass transfer phenomenon is affected due to different pre-treatments before osmosis. Therefore various pretreatments such as steam blanching, freezing and thawing were carried out before osmotic dehydration. Solid gai… Show more
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