Research Article
Physical Characteristics of Amorphous and Crystalline Coconut Sugar Powder with the Addition of Tricalcium Phosphate (TCP) as an Anticaking Agent
Table 1
Estimated GAB parameters of coconut sugar powder produced by the conventional method and the drying methods.
| Samples | GAB model | | | | |
| Vacuum drying (VD) | 0.183 | 0.938 | 2.245 | 0.973 | VD+TCP 0.5% | 0.158 | 1.000 | 2.269 | 0.970 | VD+TCP 1% | 0.099 | 0.894 | 2.209 | 0.976 | Conventional | 0.042 | 0.910 | 2.166 | 0.976 | Conventional+TCP 0.5% | 0.035 | 0.909 | 2.148 | 0.977 | Conventional+TCP 1% | 0.032 | 0.926 | 2.110 | 0.977 |
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