METHOD FOR PRODUCING OF POWDER FROM SUGAR BEET

• Main Authors: LOBOSOV VIKTOR GEORGIEVICH, MAGOMEDOV GAZIBEG OMAROVICH, MAGOMEDOV MAGOMED GASANOVICH, BUKHTOJAROV ALEKSEJ VLADIMIROVICH
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: 27.01.2007
• Subjects: FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

FIELD: food-processing industry. ^ SUBSTANCE: method involves washing roots; skinning; grinding to particles of 5-7 mm size; acidifying ground mass with citric acid to pH value of 4.2 and exposing to thermal processing by microwave heating at temperature of 100 C until ground mass is cooked out; drying cooked out mass under vacuum at residual pressure of 0.01 MPa during 18-20 min by microwave heating at specific power of 1,000-1,200 W/kg; cooling; grinding into powder and packaging ready product. ^ EFFECT: improved quality of powder by reducing beet color and eliminating beet odor. ^ 1 tbl, 3 ex