Water Crystallization: The Relation Between Water and Crispness

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A. Physical Quality in nutrisari, there are 3 main parameters to maintain physical stability:

1. Water and Crispness
The relation between water and crispness is that the more aw in the food products, then the less crispness in it. In this case, as we talk about nutrisari (dehydrated juice) the water and crispness parameter has no interaction for the product as it is not one of the parameter for nutrisari.
2. Water and Stickiness, Caking and Collapse
In dehydrated juice, caking is categorized as a problem factor. The product should be maintained to have the same quality as it is first produced and even after pass few months or years in storage until the expired date. In the dehydrated juice product, the packaging should keep the product quality. One of the methods to maintain the quality and avoid the caking is by the using of silica gel. It is used to prevent the product become caking and stickiness. The package also should be resistant to any changes of moisture content, so the moisture content of the product will remain the same. The increase of glass transition temperature also one of the method to prevent caking in dehydrated juice. When we drink nutrisari, the powder will be more soluble if we use hot water to dissolve than cold water.
3. Water Crystallization
The more aw in products, then the more mobility of solute molecule. The maillard reaction happens because of the existence of sugar and heat / increase temperature. Furoylmethyl derivatives of amino acids used as indicator of early stage of Maillard reaction in dehydrated orange juice. It is proved that the increase of formation was made in the increasing of temperature.
B. Chemical Quality in nutrisari:
In chemical reaction, water as we know can act as solvent, d...

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...ecause it functions is to protect the product when it is in storage shape (powder shape).
- Vitamin C
It is used to addition of nutritional value and prevention of browning.
- Acidity regulator (citric acid and sodium citrate)

Citric acid dissolved quickly in water. It is used as preservative and the addition of acid, it also used to prevent the microbial growth. It is used to adjust the acidity in products.

- Stabilizer vegetable
Stabilizers is used to prevent products that are emulsified to separate once they are mixed. As we know, water and oil cannot dissolved, the use of stabilizer is to dissolve water phase and oil phase so that they can be mixed together.

- Food coloring (tartrazine yellow FCF CI 19140 & CI 15985).

It is used to make the products look attractive and look more ‘orange’.
Manufactured by: PT Nutrifood Indonesia.BPOM RI MD 849910529007

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