Dried pomelo peel and preparation method thereof

• Main Authors: WANG WEI, HUANG CUICUI, BAI WEIDONG, YU LIMEI, FU MANQIONG, LIU GONGLIANG, REN WENBIN
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 02.10.2020
• Subjects: CHEWING GUM; COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; CONFECTIONERY; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

The invention relates to the technical field of food preparation, and particularly discloses dried pomelo peel and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: performing a debitterizing step: performing debitterizing on pomelo peels without yellow outer peels by adopting a chemical debitterizing method to obtain debitterized pomelo peels; performing a sugarboiling step: putting the debittered pomelo peels into an aqueous solution containing 8-10% by mass of maltitol, and performing sugar boiling; and performing a drying step: carrying out drying on thepomelo peels subjected to sugar boiling to obtain the dried pomelo peels. The dried pomelo peels prepared by the method are free of bitter taste and have the fresh scent of the pomelo peels; and meanwhile, the dried pomelo peels also have proper crispness. In addition, maltitol is used as a sweetening agent of the dried pomelo peels, so that the dried pomelo peels do not increase the blood sugar of a human body and can be