Vol. 12, Issue 11 (2023)

Author(s):
B Manasa, Dr. M Padma, B Anusha, D Sushma, G Surekha and K Balakrishna

Abstract:
The pulp from the custard apple was peeled and preservative sare added to the pulp. This pulp was spread with auni form thickness on the tray and it was kept in a tray drier, solar cabinet drier and sun drying. In this present study we measured some of the physical properties like size, shape, hardness and chemical properties like moisture content, pH. Three replications are takenfor each of the sample and recorded. For drying the custard apple pulp we used different types of driers, the pulp was extracted from the fruit and chemicals (ascorbic acid (0.1%), maltodextrin (2%), sucrose (50.7%), Dicalcium phosphate (1%)) are add ed. to it. The pulp was spread on the trays of the drier and weight of the sample was taken for every one hour. The pulp was dried until we get constant weight. It was observed that the drying of the pulp was faster in tray drier than the solar cabinet drier.