caa a22 4500 463156234 CHVBK 20180406164735.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00217-006-0466-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00217-006-0466-y Image analysis of osmotically dehydrated fruits: melons dehydration in a ternary system [Elektronische Daten] [Sueli Rodrigues, Fabiano Fernandes] Osmotic dehydration represents a technological alternative to reduce post-harvest losses of fruits. In this work, the osmotic dehydration of a ternary system (water/sugar/salt) was investigated for melon (Curcumis melo L.) dehydration using image analysis. Three kinds of sugars were used to formulate the osmotic solutions: sucrose, glucose and manitol. The process of osmotic dehydration was studied and the effects of the ternary osmotic system on the fruit shrinkage were investigated using image analysis technique. The experimental study allowed estimating the process parameters of the osmotic dehydration. The results showed the advantage of using high sugar and salt concentrations for the osmotic solution, mild temperatures, and the use of the osmotic treatment to reduce the total processing time to dry the fruit. Image analysis enabled to show how far the solid penetrates inside the fruit and to estimate the shrinkage factor of the fruit during the osmotic dehydration. Springer-Verlag, 2006 Image analysis nationallicence Cucumis melo L nationallicence Osmotic dehydration nationallicence Drying nationallicence Rodrigues Sueli Departamento de Tecnologia dos Alimentos, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Campus do Pici, Bloco 858, Caixa Postal 12168, 6021-970, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil aut Fernandes Fabiano Departamento de Engenharia Quimica, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Campus do Pici, Bloco 709, 60455-760, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil aut European Food Research and Technology Springer-Verlag 225/5-6(2007-09-01), 685-691 1438-2377 225:5-6<685 2007 225 217 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00217-006-0466-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00217-006-0466-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rodrigues Sueli Departamento de Tecnologia dos Alimentos, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Campus do Pici, Bloco 858, Caixa Postal 12168, 6021-970, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fernandes Fabiano Departamento de Engenharia Quimica, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Campus do Pici, Bloco 709, 60455-760, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Food Research and Technology Springer-Verlag 225/5-6(2007-09-01), 685-691 1438-2377 225:5-6<685 2007 225 217 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer