Development of process technology for making tomato powder and its quality evaluation

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Journal Article
Citation:
Indian Journal of Ecology, 2016, 43, (2), pp. 533-536
Issue Date:
2016-12-01
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The objective of this study was to analyse the physio-chemical and nutritional quality of a tray dried tomato powder with three chemical treatments namely potassium meta-bisulphite (KMS), calcium chloride (CaCI2) and combination of these two at different concentrations. The results indicated that the moisture content of tomato slices decreased rapidly with the increase in drying time from 1 hr to 10 hr using different concentrations of KMS, CaCI2 and KMS+CaCI2. At 11 hr, the moisture content attained a steady state for all the samples. Further, the quality of processed tomato powder with different KMS, CaCI2 and KMS+CaCI2 concentrations was tested in terms of lycopene (mg/100 gm), ash content (%), dehydration ratio, rehydration ratio, pH, % recovery, and vitamin C along with the raw controlled sample. It is concluded that overall quality of tomato powder was good in combination of KMS+CaCI2 as compared to KMS and CaCI2. Similarly, 0.2g KMS+1.0g CaCl2/100g concentration gave better quality than the 0.1 g KMS+0.5g CaCI2/100g and 0.3g KMS+1.5g CaCI2/100g.
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