Obtenção de banana nanica (Musa acuminata Colla subgrupo Cavendish) crocante a partir de secagem a alta temperatura / Obtaining Nanica banana (Musa acuminata Colla Cavendish subgroup) crunchy from the high-temperature drying

AUTOR(ES)

Kelly Hofsetz

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

We present here a study about producing crispy banana using a HTST (High Temperature Short Time) process. The process involves pretreatment of the fruit during 5 minutes at 70°C, a dry HTST stage (130, 140 and 150°C and 9, 12 and 15 minutes) and, finally, a dry stage at 70°C until the water activity (aw) is near 0,300. In order to evaluate the HTST stage in the process, we used a factorial 22 design with 3 center points. The results produced by this analysis were the rehydratation degree, the model parameter of Lewis k (considering either the complete process, the HTST stage and the dry stage at 70°C). Also, crispness was analyzed according to sensorial and instrumental measurements. This process generated a matrix containing the results of several trial runs for the following settings: 130°C-9min, 130°C-15min, 150°C-9min, 150°C-15min and 3 center points at 140°C-12min. Crispy banana was obtained only with 140°C-12min and 150°C15min, where aw = 0,345 and aw = 0,363, respectively. The results show that the best rehydration degree occurs for 10 and 5 minutes. Also, there exists a relationship between the crispness (sensorial and instrumental) and the HTST stage. However, it was not possible to find a suitable value to the Lewis Model parameter k to HTST and 70°C dry stages. This is because the initial moisture of the fruits was not the same for all tests, which produced different values for k. In addition, we evaluated the crispness of commercial freeze-dried fruits and the water activity value. Finally, we compared measurements of the commercial banana with the dried banana obtained in this work. Both were considered crispy

ASSUNTO(S)

banana alimentos - textura food sensory evaluation fruit avaliação sensorial frutas - secagem

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