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Original Articles

Drying Kinetics and Bioactivity of Beetroot Slices Pretreated in Concentrated Chokeberry Juice and Dried with Vacuum Microwaves

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Pages 1644-1653 | Published online: 31 Aug 2015
 

Abstract

Beetroot slices 18 mm in diameter and with a thickness of 9.6, 6.3, 3.35, or 2.6 mm were pretreated in 40°Bx chokeberry juice at a temperature of 50°C for 2 h and then dried by a vacuum-microwave (VM) method at different microwave power levels, such as 120, 240, 360, 480, and 480/120 W. The drying kinetics were described by a fitted model that incorporated contributions from the surface area of the samples, microwave power, and VM processing time. As the microwave power during VM drying increased, the bioactive potential decreased for untreated samples and increased for pretreated samples. Increasing the samples' specific surface area resulted in shorter drying time, lower temperature of the material during drying, and enhanced quality of the dried product. For osmotically pretreated beetroot slices with a specific surface area of 827 ± 18 m2m−3, a final VM drying step at 240 W is recommended to produce high quality vegetable snacks.

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