Osmotic dehydration monitoring of Quince through salt, sucrose and glucose osmotic solutions

In this study, osmotic dehydration of quince was performed as osmotic solution including C1 (10% NaCl + 30% Sucrose + 30% Glucose w/w), C2 (10% NaCl + 10% Sucrose + 50% Glucose w/w), C3 (10% NaCl + 50% Sucrose + 10% Glucose w/w), C4 (20% NaCl + 50% Sucrose w/w), C5 (20% NaCl +50% Glucose w/w), C6 (50% Glucose w/w), C7 (60% Glucose w/w),C8 (70% Glucose w/w), C9 (50% Sucrose w/w), C10 (60% Sucrose w/w), and C11 (70% Sucrose w/w). Temperature condition was 25 and 75 c°. Ratio was 1:5 and 1:10(Quince: osmotic solution).Water loss (WL), Solid gain (SG), moisture content (MCwb) and weight reduction (WR) were calculated during 8 hours through osmotic condition. The results indicated that C2 solution had maximum water loss, 0.369. Also, C5 solution had maximum average solid gain, 0.196.