National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Button mushrooms are highly perishable in nature because of its high moisture content about (85-90%) hence starts deteriorating immediately within a day after harvest. So as to increase its shelf life three different samples of Button Mushroom Slices viz. untreated, blanched and optimized osmosed samples were taken for drying experiment at each level of drying air temperature (50, 60 and 70oC). Drying of osmosed Button Mushroom slices at 70oC drying air temperature provided shortest drying time to produce best quality dried product as compared to blanched and untreated Button Mushroom samples. The drying time of osmosed sample was reduced to 480 minutes as compared to 600 and 660 minutes taken by blanched and untreated button mushroom samples. The osmotically dehydrated button mushroom samples showed best rehydration characteristics like Rehydration ratio of 4.98 and coefficient of rehydration of 0.493 and also produced the sample with good nutritional composition as compared to the other samples.
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