Effect of Cooking on Moisture Sorption Isotherms of Sheanut (Vitellaria paradoxa Gaertn.) Kernels: Evidence from Light and Scanning Electron Microscopy
Tóm tắt
The standard static gravimetric method was used to determine moisture sorption isotherms of both raw and cooked sheanut kernels at 40, 50 and 60 °C in the water activity range 0.11–0.96 in order to evaluate the influence of cooking on the moisture sorption capacity of the kernels. Preliminary analysis showed that the kernels lost a significant quantity of its proteins and carbohydrate during the cooking process. Results of analysis of the moisture sorption isotherms revealed that cooked kernels generally had significantly (p < 0.05) lower equilibrium moisture contents (EMC) than the raw ones for both desorption and adsorption processes. The effect of temperature on the sorption processes as portrayed by the desorption isotherms revealed that EMC decreased steadily with increase in temperature within the water activity range 0.10–0.8 aw but increased rapidly with increase in temperature above 0.8 aw resulting in the overlap of isotherms for all sorption processes. This crossing over of isotherms was attributed to the dissolution of sugars at higher water activities. The protein matrix in the kernel was observed using light microscopy and was found to have been disorientated after cooking. Studies using light and scanning electron microscopy revealed that the reduced ability of cooked kernels to sorb water could be linked to changes in the structure of the kernels brought about by the cooking of the kernels. It is concluded that cooking had a very significant effect on the amount of water sorbed by sheanut kernels.
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