Blanching of Strawberries by Ohmic Heating: Effects on the Kinetics of Mass Transfer during Osmotic Dehydration |
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Authors: | Hind Allali Luc Marchal Eugène Vorobiev |
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Affiliation: | 1.Centre de Recherches de Royallieu, Département Génie Chimique, Laboratoire de Génie des Procédés Industriels UMR-CNRS 6067 BP 20529,Université de Technologie de Compiègne,Compiègne cedex,France;2.Laboratoire Génie des Procédés, Environnement, Agroalimentaire (GEPEA-UMR-CNRS 6144) CRTT,Université de Nantes,Saint-Nazaire Cedex,France |
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Abstract: | The effect of blanching by ohmic heating (OH) on the kinetics of osmotic dehydration of strawberries was studied. Ohmic heating
parameters obtained at two temperatures (65 and 85 °C). The osmotic dehydration (OD) parameters are the temperature (26 and
37 °C) and the sucrose in osmotic solution (30–70 °B). An approximate solution of Fick’s law for unsteady state mass transfer
in spherical configuration has been used to calculate the effective diffusion coefficients of water and sucrose. Results show
that ohmic heating increases drastically the mass transfer and the effective diffusion rates. After 4 h of OD (without OH)
in a sucrose solution (at 37 °C and 70 °B), the dry matter of the untreated strawberry halves was 20.3%; while it reached
68% when OD was combined with blanching by OH at 85 °C for 3-min. Ohmic blanching permits the effective damage of cells by
combination of electrical and thermal effects. That result has an important enhancement of water and sugar transfers during
osmotic dehydration of strawberries. |
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