Métodos combinados de desidratação osmótica e secagem para conservação de manga Tommy Atkins.

Abstract

The mango {Mangifera indica. L) it is one of the more popular tropical fruits of the world, she stands out for the flavor, smell and nutritious value. In spite of the high technology used in the production of mango, great losses powder-crops still exist, due to climatic, physical and chemical factors. One of the main causes of the deterioration of fresh and also conserved victuals is the amount of present free water in the same ones. This work was driven with the objective of studying the process of osmotic and kinetic dehydration of drying conventional for obtaining of dry products of mango Tommy Atkins. The solutions used in the process of osmotic dehydration were of sucrose and corn syrup. The osmotic dehydration was accomplished in agreement with a planning complete fatorial 23, with central and axial points, totalizando 17 rehearsals. The influence of each variable and its interactions on the answers were analyzed through variance analysis (ANOVA), test F and determination coefficient (R2). It was verified that the factors (temperature, concentration and time) showed to have significant effect on the weight loss, loss of water and gain of solids of dehydrated sleeve, inside of the studied strips, that is to say, with those factors adulfs increase it went to it influences on the studied answers. In this study the factors concentration and temperature were the one of larger influence in the process of osmotic dehydration. The found great conditions of osmotic dehydration used as pré-treatment for obtaining of a larger loss of water and a smaller gain of solids were: temperatures of 50 and 40°C, concentration of 40 and 50% and time of immersion of 90 and 160 minutes, for the mango dehydrated in sucrose solution and corn syrup, respectively. The stage of drying conventional of the samples in natura and dehydrated it was accomplished in dryer of fixed bed, in the temperatures of 30, 40 and 50°C and speed ofthe air of 2,1 m/s"1. The experimental data of were drying conventional adjusted by Page model. The final product was evaluated by the pH, acidity and total sugars and reducers.