Vitamin C content and sensorial properties of dehydrated carrots blanched conventionally or by ultrasound

Vitamin C content and sensorial properties have been evaluated in air-dried carrots previously subjected to different ultrasound (US) or conventional blanching pretreatments. In addition, mass spectral fingerprints obtained by the Headspace ChemSensor System have been evaluated for the first time for classification of carrots according to their processing. Conventional blanching treatments at high temperature gave rise to carrots with retention of vitamin C in the range 37.5-85%, whereas carrots blanched conventionally at 60 °C and by US-probe at temperatures up to 60 and 70 °C showed vitamin C retention values lower than 4%. Regarding sensorial analysis of rehydrated carrots, US-pretreated samples presented acceptable quality, and no statistically significant differences with respect to conventionally blanched carrots, were detected. In spite of this, differentiation of samples processed under comparable intensity conditions and/or with similar composition was possible from their mass spectral fingerprints after chemometric data analysis. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Gamboa-Santos, Juliana, Soria, Ana C., Pérez-Mateos, Miriam, Carrasco Manzano, Juan Atanasio, Montilla, Antonia, Villamiel, Mar
Other Authors:	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
Format:	artículo biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2013
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10261/65044 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004837 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003339 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780
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