Effect of electrodialysis pretreatment on physicochemical properties and morphology of spray-dried-fish sauce powder
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Author list: Chindapan N., Devahastin S., Chiewchan N.
Publisher: Elsevier
Publication year: 2010
Journal: Journal of Food Engineering (0260-8774)
Volume number: 99
Issue number: 1
Start page: 31
End page: 39
Number of pages: 9
ISSN: 0260-8774
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
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Abstract
Fish sauce is a popular Asian food ingredient having specific flavor that gives pleasure to the senses of taste. However, fish sauce contains high-salt content, which is nowadays not desirable by health-conscious consumers. Recently, it has been shown that electrodialysis succeeds in reducing the salt content of fish sauce without affecting its important characteristics over a specific range of residual salt content. In this study the effect of electrodialysis pretreatment prior to spray drying to produce low-salt fish sauce powder, which is a more shelf-stable and convenient product compared with liquid fish sauce, was investigated. Product recovery, morphology and selected physicochemical properties, i.e., moisture content, water activity, hygroscopicity, as well as X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of the fish sauce powder were determined. The ED-treated-fish sauces of various salt contents (in the range of approximately 2-25% w/w) were spray dried at inlet drying air temperatures of 120-180 ฐC. It was found that the feed salt concentration and inlet air temperature had significant effects on all observed variables. This is due to the fact that the feed salt concentration strongly affected water removal from the ED-treated-fish sauce during spray drying, leading to significant alterations of the ED-treated-fish sauce powder properties. ฉ 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords
Electrolyte concentration, Hygroscopicity, Product recovery, Spray drying, Water activity
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