Escalating the technical bounds for the production of cellulose-aided peach leathers: From the benchtop to the pilot plant.
Carbohydr Polym
; 245: 116437, 2020 Oct 01.
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| ID: mdl-32718594
This contribution falls within the context of sustainable functional materials. We report on the production of fruit leathers based chiefly on peach pulp, but combined with hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) as binding agent and cellulose micro/nanofibrils (CMNF) as fillers. Increased permeability to moisture (from 0.9 to 5.6 g mm kPa-1 h-1m-2) and extensibility (from 10 to 17%) but reduced mechanical resistance (67-2 MPa) and stiffness (1.8 GPa-18 MPa) evidenced the plasticizing effect of peach pulp in HPMC matrix, which was reinforced by CMNF. A ternary mixture design allowed building response surfaces and optimizing leather composition. The laboratory-scale leather production via bench casting was extended to a pilot-scale through continuous casting. The effect of scaling up on the nutritional and sensory features of the peach leather was also depicted. The herein established composition-processing-property correlations are useful to support the large-scale production of peach leather towards applications both as packaging materials and as nutritional leathers.
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Asunto principal:
Derivados de la Hipromelosa
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Prunus persica
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Frutas
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Películas Comestibles
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Antioxidantes
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En
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Carbohydr Polym
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2020
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Article
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Reino Unido