Effects of Fluidized Bed Drying and Hot Air Drying on the Quality of Dehydrated Garlics

Authors

  • Sunan Parnsakhorn
  • Jaturong Langkapin

Abstract

This research aimed to determine the optimum conditions for drying garlic powder product by using hot air oven and fluidized bed dryers at three different temperatures 60, 70 and 80oC. Tests of all conditions were found with decreased of moisture content and the moisture ratio can be expressed in exponential relationships. The final moisture content of dehydrated garlic was about 6%w.b. and the water activity (aw) was between 0.3-0.4. The test results showed that to dry garlic in hot air oven and fluidized bed dryer at 80oC was taken 220 and 110 minutes, which was shorter than the drying at 60oC (550 min and 390 min) and 70oC (330 min and 280 min), respectively. The color characteristics values of dried garlic such as lightness (L*), redness (a*) and yellowness (b*) were affected by the air temperature and different drying technique, where as fresh garlics were showed the color values in range 53-62, 3-7 and 18-20 for L*, a* and b*, respectively. For drying garlic with hot air oven and fluidized bed dryers were observed trend to decreased in L* values while a* and b* values increased. The final values of L*, a* and b* of garlic drying by hot air oven showed that at 60oC were 41.80, 13.17, 29.63, at 70oC were 39.40, 14.60, 29.73 and at 80oC were 34.66, 25.13, 25.60, respectively. The three color values were similar to those drying with a fluidized bed dryer as well. After calculating the Chorma value (C*) and the color difference value (DE*) was found the increased for both values under all test conditions. Therefore, from various factors physical and chemical studies of garlic drying were found to be indicative of optimal conditions for drying at low temperature (60oC) with fluidized bed dryer. At this condition was provided good color appearance and short drying time, the final product was presented the optimum moisture content and water activity.                   Keywords :  Garlic ; Drying ; Hot air drying ; Fluidized bed drying

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2022-05-18