Journal of Quality and Reliability Engineering

Research Article

Physicochemical Characterization of Alginate Beads Containing Sugars and Biopolymers

Table 1

Water content (as percent of wet basis, WC % w.b.) and water activity () obtained for different beads formulations. Standard deviation values () are included.
BeadsWC (% w.b.)
A44 ± 20.983 ± 0.002
A-T37 ± 10.975 ± 0.002
A-TCh41 ± 20.981 ± 0.004
A-TCD41 ± 10.979 ± 0.002
AP-T39 ± 30.981 ± 0.002
AGG-T39 ± 10.967 ± 0.003
AAG-T41.6 ± 0.60.958 ± 0.006
AVG-T40 ± 20.960 ± 0.003
AECG-T37.1 ± 0.60.961 ± 0.007
Different letters (a–d) indicate significant differences between values in each column with , assigning (a) to the highest and (d) to the lowest values.