%0 Journal Article %1 JSFA:JSFA6501 %A Jiang, Hao %A Zhang, Min %A Mujumdar, Arun S %A Lim, Rui-Xin %D 2014 %I John Wiley & Sons, Ltd %J Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture %K drying %N 9 %P 1827--1834 %R 10.1002/jsfa.6501 %T Comparison of drying characteristic and uniformity of banana cubes dried by pulse-spouted microwave vacuum drying, freeze drying and microwave freeze drying %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.6501 %V 94 %X BACKGROUND To overcome the flaws of high energy consumption of freeze drying (FD) and the non-uniform drying of microwave freeze drying (MFD), pulse-spouted microwave vacuum drying (PSMVD) was developed. RESULTS The results showed that the drying time can be dramatically shortened if microwave was used as the heating source. In this experiment, both MFD and PSMVD could shorten drying time by 50% as compared to the FD process. Depending on the heating method, MFD and PSMVD dried banana cubes showed trends of expansion while FD dried samples demonstrated trends of shrinkage. Shrinkage also brought intensive structure and highest fracturability of all three samples dried by different methods. The residual ascorbic acid content of PSMVD dried samples can be as high as in FD dried samples, which were superior to MFD dried samples. CONCLUSION The tests confirmed that PSMVD could bring about better drying uniformity than MFD. Besides, compared with traditional MFD, PSMVD can provide better extrinsic feature, and can bring about improved nutritional features because of the higher residual ascorbic acid content. © 2013 Society of Chemical Industry

@article{JSFA:JSFA6501, abstract = {BACKGROUND To overcome the flaws of high energy consumption of freeze drying (FD) and the non-uniform drying of microwave freeze drying (MFD), pulse-spouted microwave vacuum drying (PSMVD) was developed. RESULTS The results showed that the drying time can be dramatically shortened if microwave was used as the heating source. In this experiment, both MFD and PSMVD could shorten drying time by 50% as compared to the FD process. Depending on the heating method, MFD and PSMVD dried banana cubes showed trends of expansion while FD dried samples demonstrated trends of shrinkage. Shrinkage also brought intensive structure and highest fracturability of all three samples dried by different methods. The residual ascorbic acid content of PSMVD dried samples can be as high as in FD dried samples, which were superior to MFD dried samples. CONCLUSION The tests confirmed that PSMVD could bring about better drying uniformity than MFD. Besides, compared with traditional MFD, PSMVD can provide better extrinsic feature, and can bring about improved nutritional features because of the higher residual ascorbic acid content. © 2013 Society of Chemical Industry }, added-at = {2014-06-17T11:15:06.000+0200}, author = {Jiang, Hao and Zhang, Min and Mujumdar, Arun S and Lim, Rui-Xin}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/27efa0d1779b32cc1d2cf06590ffb7093/liloubio}, description = {Comparison of drying characteristic and uniformity of banana cubes dried by pulse-spouted microwave vacuum drying, freeze drying and microwave freeze drying - Jiang - 2014 - Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture - Wiley Online Library}, doi = {10.1002/jsfa.6501}, interhash = {bf6cf1785ea6440b6e4ede40e555ceb4}, intrahash = {7efa0d1779b32cc1d2cf06590ffb7093}, issn = {1097-0010}, journal = {Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture}, keywords = {drying}, number = 9, pages = {1827--1834}, publisher = {John Wiley & Sons, Ltd}, timestamp = {2014-06-17T11:15:06.000+0200}, title = {Comparison of drying characteristic and uniformity of banana cubes dried by pulse-spouted microwave vacuum drying, freeze drying and microwave freeze drying}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.6501}, volume = 94, year = 2014 }