Cherry fibers isolated from harvest residues as valuable dietary fiber and functional food ingredients

Residues discarded at cherry fruit harvesting were extracted with ethanol from ‘Chelan’, ‘Brooks’ and ‘Sunburst’ varieties to obtain cherry fibers constituted by the cell wall polysaccharides, applicable as functional food ingredients, additives and/or dietary fibers. Powder properties were evaluate...

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Autores principales: Basanta, Maria Florencia, de Escalada Pla, Marina Francisca, Raffo Benegas, Maria Dolores, Stortz, Carlos Arturo, Rojas, Ana Maria Luisa
Formato: info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0260877413005864
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/3909
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2013.11.010
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Sumario:Residues discarded at cherry fruit harvesting were extracted with ethanol from ‘Chelan’, ‘Brooks’ and ‘Sunburst’ varieties to obtain cherry fibers constituted by the cell wall polysaccharides, applicable as functional food ingredients, additives and/or dietary fibers. Powder properties were evaluated. The highest specific volume, directly related to sample porosity, corresponded to ‘Brooks’ fibers. These results matched the best hydration properties showed by ‘Brooks’. Chemical composition may indicate a hydrogel microstructure for cherry fibers. ‘Chelan’ and ‘Sunburst’ powders showed the highest total phenolics content, 40–63% of which were bound. The FRAP-antioxidant activity determined in water was lower than that expected from the total phenolics content determined after alkaline or acid hydrolysis. Cherry fibers stabilized oil-in-water (ϕ = 50%) emulsions and showed foaming capacity. Beyond some differences observed between varieties, cherry harvesting residues constitute valuable sources of biopolymers and antioxidant compounds potentially useful as functional food ingredients and dietary fiber.