Title
Influence of alternative drying aids on water sorption of spray dried mango mix powders: A thermodynamic approach
Date Issued
01 January 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Cano-Higuita D.M.
Telis-Romero J.
Váquiro H.A.
Telis V.R.N.
Universidade Estadual Paulista
Publisher(s)
Institution of Chemical Engineers
Abstract
Mango pulp mixed with drying aids (maltodextrin and skimmed milk) was spray dried to obtain three powder formulations. The water sorption behavior of these mango mix formulations was determined at temperatures of 20, 30, 40 and 50 °C in water activity ranging between 0.059 and 0.907. The Guggenheim, Anderson and De Boer (GAB) model was applied to modeling the adsorption isotherms of mango mix powders, resulting in statistical values of mean relative error (MRE ≤ 5.14%). Differential and integral thermodynamic properties related to water sorption for the mango powders were determined by the analytical derivation of the water activity with respect to temperature based on the GAB model fitting. The differential thermodynamic properties indicated a decrease in the water sorption energy with increasing water content and the negative values of the Gibbs free energy revealed that the sorption process was spontaneous for the three powder formulations. In spite of the formulation containing skimmed milk have shown the higher monolayer water contents, the minimal integral entropy zone observed at similar values of water activity for the three mango mix powders indicated that all of them could be safely stored at the same relative humidity condition.
Start page
19
End page
28
Volume
93
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biotecnología agrícola, Biotecnología alimentaria Alimentos y bebidas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84922225171
Source
Food and Bioproducts Processing
ISSN of the container
09603085
Sponsor(s)
The authors are grateful to the Sao Paulo State Research Support Agency, FAPESP , for the financial support (process 2009/13033-9).
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