Title
Kinetic of fat bloom in commercial dark chocolate samples in Peru
Other title
Cinética de eflorescencia grasa en muestras de chocolate oscuro comercial en Perú
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Abstract
The fat bloom is a recrystallization process, resulting in the surface of the chocolate becoming opaque and white. The objective of the research was to determine the kinetics of appearance of the referred phenomenon by evaluating the whiteness index (WI) in Peruvian chocolate for sale with 45 and 70% of cocoa. The kinetics were determined for the accelerated method of temperature cycles with cycles of 30 ± 1°C (for 8 hours) and 20 ± 1°C (for 16 hours) at relative humidity of 30; 50 and 70 percent; the measurements were inter-daily. The relative humidity did not significantly influence (P > 0.05) in the fat bloom kinetic before 48 hours of storage. The highest average (IB) observed was 55.7 ± 0.25, reached by chocolate at 70% cocoa, stored at 30% of humidity. The kinetic of fat bloom is given by the inverted exponential function: WI = WIf - (WIf - WIi) e-Kθ
Start page
81
End page
88
Volume
69
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Agronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85104381193
Source
Acta Agronomica
ISSN of the container
01202812
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