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    Bioactive compounds-rich Gac peel powder: Optimization of extraction and foam-mat drying conditions
    (2025-12-01)
    Thuy, Nguyen Minh
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    Tien, Vo Quoc
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    Giau, Tran Ngoc
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    Van Hao, Hong
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    Minh, Vo Quang
    Gac fruit (Momordica cochinchinensis Spreng) is a healthy fruit and has long been used as food and medicine. During fruit processing, the peel is often discarded as waste. However, Gac fruit peel contains a significant amount of carotenoids. This study encapsulates bioactive compounds extracted from dried Gac peels using egg albumin (EA) and xanthan gum (XG) as foaming agents and stabilizers in foam-mat drying at different temperature. The extraction process (in ethanol 60 %) was assisted by ultrasound (40 kHz, 350 W) with solvent: Gac peel ratios of 30/1–40/1, extraction temperature and time of 45–55 °C and 25–55 min, respectively. EA (9.2–15.2 %) and XG (0.1–0.38 %) were used as foaming agent and foam stabilizer, respectively, with different foam-mat drying temperatures (65–75 °C). The Response Surface Methodology (RSM) combined with a Box-Behnken Design (BBD), 3 factors - 3 levels was used to optimize the independent variables to capture the maximum level of dependent variables. The optimal extraction conditions were determined (solvent/Gac peel ratio of 36.26/1, temperature of 51.38°C and time of 43.39 min) for the extract containing high levels of lycopene 292.04 μg/g, β-carotene (515.72 μg/g) and total polyphenols (3.86 mg GAE/g). The extract was used to produce powder by foam-mat drying. EA, XG and drying temperature significantly affected the drying rate and powder quality. The optimum concentrations of EA and XG were determined to be 13.13 % and 0.3 %, respectively, at an optimum drying temperature of 72.4°C. Under these conditions, the highest drying rate (2.41 g water/g dry matter/min) was achieved to produce powder containing the with highest content of lycopene, β-carotene and total polyphenol contents, 83.42 µg/g, 97.68 µg/g and 1.09 mg GAE/g, respectively. The physical and chemical properties of foam-mat dried Gac peel powder were also investigated. Making good use of byproducts from fruit processing will help local communities and businesses while also ensuring the goal of a circular economy, contributing to long-term socioeconomic growth and enhancing public health, at least in the region and around the world.
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    Effect of foaming conditions and drying temperatures on total polyphenol content and drying rate of foam-mat dried banana powder: Modeling and optimization study
    (2024-12-01)
    Van Tai, Ngo
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    Van Hao, Hong
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    Han, Tran Thi Ngoc
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    Giau, Tran Ngoc
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    Thuy, Nguyen Minh
    This study aims to optimize the parameters of the foam-mat drying to produce banana powder. Input parameters of the foam drying such as foaming agent (egg albumin) concentration used from 5 to 15 %, the foam stabilizer (maltodextrin) used from 1 to 3 % and the drying temperature varied between 60 and 80 °C. Factors with 3 levels are arranged according to the Box-Behnken design, which further modelled by RSM (response surface methodology) and ANN (artificial neural network), and optimized. The drying rate and total polyphenol content (TPC) of banana powder under the studied conditions were determined as the target output. The moisture, color, total polyphenol, antioxidant activity and some physical parameters of final fine powder were analyzed. Increasing temperature has increased the drying rate. In addition, increasing the concentrations of egg albumin and maltodextrin maintained the highest TPC and maximum drying rate. ANN model showed the higher forecasting capacity than that of RSM. Moreover, simultaneous optimization of two responses (TPC and drying rate) was selected to maximize the desired value at the concentration of albumin, maltodextrin and drying temperature of 11.86 %, 1.92 %, 74.94 °C, respectively, corresponding to the highest TPC value and drying rate of 1.31 mgGAE/g DW and 2.48 g water/g dry matter/min. At this condition, the drying time was recorded as 103 min. Validation of the optimal ratios showed that the experimental values of TPC and drying rate were in good agreement with the model predicted data. The moisture content and water activity of product were found to be 5.87 ± 0.07 % and 0.37 ± 0.01. The product had bright colors with L*, a* and b* values were measured as 86.4 ± 0.5, 1.75 ± 0.08 and 15.2 ± 0.3, respectively. The high DPPH radical scavenging activity was detected (53.5 %) with the water solubility index and water absorption index of banana powder was determined at value of 56.98 % and 5.17 g/g, respectively. Foam mat dried banana powder was well preserved in paper packaging with aluminum foil.