Drying of Aloe Vera Gel

ISBN-13: 9783659682889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 132 str.

Jain Narendra Kumar;Murumkar Rajesh;Pisalkar Prashant

Opis

Aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis Miller) is a traditional medicinal plant used in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. But the Aloe vera gel contains over 98-99% of water and thus it is highly perishable. To evolve a better method of preservation for increasing the shelf life and maintaining the quality of aloe vera gel, drying is a good attempt. The art of drying is being practiced since the start of the civilization. There are several methods of drying of materials. Therefore a study was undertaken to investigate osmotic behavior and drying characteristics of aloe vera gel under convective and osmo-convective drying system to obtain a quality product.

O autorze

Er. Prashant S. Pisalkar is Assistant Professor at Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalya, Raipur (Chhattisgarh), he did B.Tech. (Agril. Enggg.) (Dr. PDKV, Akola), M.Tech (Agril. Engg.) Processing & Food Engineering (MPUAT, Udaipur). He has over 6 years of experience in teaching, research and extension and has published several research articles.