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Wahidu Zzaman1, Saad Al-Din Sifat1
1Department of Food Engineering and Tea Technology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet 3114, Bangladesh.
Abstract:
This research focused on the roasting of cocoa beans at 184 °C for 16 min duration in a superheated steam oven using two separate modes of heating: convection mode and superheated steam mode. After roasting, the antioxidant properties of the cooked cocoa were assessed as ferric reducing antioxidant power activity (FRAP), DPPH radical scavenging activity, total flavonoid content (TFC) and total phenol content (TPC). The micro structural properties of raw and processed cocoa beans were observed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). As discovered in the scan, conventional roasting showed a nearly complete rapture of the cytoplasmic network system and the destruction of the organelles, whereas superheated steam mode showed satisfactory images. Studies indicated that superheated steam roasting preserved significantly (p < 0.05) greater antioxidant properties as opposed to conventional method of roasting.
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