Research Article
Microwave-Assisted Hot Air Drying of Orange Snacks: Drying Kinetics, Thin Layer Modeling, Quality Attributes, and Phenolic Profiles
Table 3
The color values of fresh and dried orange slices changed by using the HTAD and HTAD-MW procedures.
| Drying conditions | | | | | | h° |
| Fresh orange slices | 56.49 ± 0.07a | 15.67 ± 0.01g | 46.99 ± 0.08a | — | 49.54 ± 0.08a | 71.55 ± 0,04a | 60°C HTAD | 50.90 ± 0.05b | 15.82 ± 0.01f | 42.15 ± 0.02b | 17.23 ± 0.01c | 46.48 ± 0.01b | 68.08 ± 0.02b | 60°C HTAD-MW | 49.53 ± 0.03c | 15.93 ± 0.02e | 41.20 ± 0.03c | 20.20 ± 0.05a | 43.08 ± 0.05c | 65.93 ± 0.01c | 70°C HTAD | 46.01 ± 0.04d | 16.28 ± 0.05d | 38.09 ± 0.08d | 13.87 ± 0.01f | 40.23 ± 0.02d | 64.87 ± 0.02e | 70°C HTAD-MW | 44.35 ± 0.01e | 16.71 ± 0.01c | 31.47 ± 0.06e | 19.84 ± 0.03b | 34.96 ± 0.09e | 65.06 ± 0.03d | 80°C HTAD | 43.04 ± 0.03f | 17.28 ± 0.06b | 30.75 ± 0.12f | 14.57 ± 0.01e | 33.78 ± 0.25f | 63.79 ± 0.03f | 80°C HTAD-MW | 41.74 ± 0.05g | 17.77 ± 0.05a | 28.08 ± 0.03g | 16.20 ± 0.02d | 30.64 ± 0.03g | 62.87 ± 0.05g |
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Note. Different lower case letters indicate significant differences in the same column ( < 0.05). |