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Accelerated mass transfer during osmotic dehydration of high intensity electrical field pulse pretreated carrots.

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Title Accelerated mass transfer during osmotic dehydration of high intensity electrical field pulse pretreated carrots.
 
Creator Rastogi, N. K.
Eshtigahi, M. N.
Knorr, D.
 
Subject 02 Drying and Dehydration
04 Carrot
 
Description High intensity electrical field pulse (0.22 to 1.60 kV/cm) pretreatment was tested to accelerate the osmotic dehydration of carrot. Applied energy in the range of 0.04 to 2.25 kJ/kg, increased cell disintegration index in the range of 0.09 to 0.84 with < 1 °C rise in the product temperature. The effective diffusion coefficients of water and solute, determined using a Fickian diffusion model, increased exponentially with electric field strength according to D = A exp(-B/E). The rise in effective diffusion coefficient may be attributed to an increase in cell wall permeability, facilitating transport of water and solute. Such increase was evidenced by cell disintegration index and softening of product.
 
Date 1999
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://ir.cftri.com/2635/1/Journal_of_Food_Science_64%286%29_1999_1020-1023.pdf
Rastogi, N. K. and Eshtigahi, M. N. and Knorr, D. (1999) Accelerated mass transfer during osmotic dehydration of high intensity electrical field pulse pretreated carrots. Journal of Food Science, 64 (6). pp. 1020-1023.