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A Cooling System with Water Recycle for Blanched Vegetables
Author(s) -
SWARTZ JOHN B.,
CARROAD PAUL A.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of food science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1750-3841
pISSN - 0022-1147
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1981.tb04880.x
Subject(s) - blanching , evaporative cooler , water cooling , environmental science , ascorbic acid , chemistry , flume , food science , pulp and paper industry , meteorology , mathematics , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , flow (mathematics) , geometry
A water conserving cooling system with water recycle for blanched vegetables was designed to complement a previously developed water recycling blancher. The two stage cooler consisted of an evaporative cooling section with forced air and water sprays and a flume cooler with water, which was both refrigerated and recycled. A pilot scale blanching and cooling system was constructed, and broccoli spears were processed. The cooling system was effective at lowering the product temperature rapidly while maintaining the quality of the product at a high level as determined by ascorbic acid concentration, percentage of total solids, percentage of retained chlorophyll, and microbial counts.