African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12487

Full Length Research Paper

Retention of β-carotene in frozen carrots under varying conditions of temperature and time of storage

Debjani Dutta, Utpal Raychaudhuri, and Runu Chakraborty*
Department of Food and Biochemical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700032, India.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 15 August 2004
  •  Published: 31 January 2005

Abstract

 

Carrots were blanched and stored in a freezer to study the retention of β-carotene. Retention was found to be better in 3 min blanched samples than in 5 min ones. There was an increase in β-carotene content in carrots after 5 days at all storage temperatures: 0, –8, –14, and –18oC. Decrease was found to be insignificant compared to the initial value even after 80 days of storage time at –18oC and for 3 min blanch time.

 

Key words: Carrots, β-carotene, blanching, freezing, activation energy, storage time.

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