Accelerated drying of groundnuts
- 1 March 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
- Vol. 18 (3) , 116-118
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.2740180308
Abstract
Curing and drying of unshelled groundnuts is difficult when harvesting coincides with the rainy season. Groundnuts on haulms have then a high moisture content and if not cured or dried artificially to a safe moisture level, deteriorate quickly on storage. Work on the comparative merits of sun‐drying and accelerated‐drying has been carried out and the storage behaviour of the respective lots studied using as a control, nuts, not subjected either to sun or accelerated drying. Sun‐dried groundnuts were slightly lower in free fatty acids during the storage period. Accelerated‐dried groundnuts also kept well both in respect of free fatty acids and peroxide value of oils.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Physical aspects of the drying of groundnutsJournal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 1965