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Effects of heat treatment and storage temperature on the use of a?aí drink by nutraceutical and beverage industriesDOI: 10.1590/S0101-20612012005000026 Keywords: euterpe oleracea, a?aí pulp, anthocyanins, degradation, pasteurization. Abstract: this study assesses the storage temperature effect on the anthocyanins of pasteurized and unpasteurized a?aí pulp. the data was obtained using a pasteurized and lyophilized pulp (plp) to evaluate the temperature effect (0, 25, and 40 °c). part of non-pasteurized frozen pulp (npp) was pasteurized (npp-p) at 90 °c for 30 seconds; both pulps were stored at 40 °c. the anthocyanin content reduction in the drink was evaluated from the half-life time (t1/2), activation energy (ea), temperature quotient (q10), and the reaction rate constant (k). the t1/2 of the plp anthocyanins stored at 40 °c was 1.8 times less than that stored at 25 °c and 15 times less than that stored at 0 °c; therefore, the higher temperatures decreased the stability of anthocyanins. the pasteurization increased the t1/2 by 6.6 times (10.14 hours for npp and 67.28 hours for npp-p). the anthocyanin degradation on npp-p followed a first order kinetic, while npp followed a second order kinetic; thus it can be said that the pasteurization process can improve the preservation of anthocyanins in the pulp.
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