Feasibility study on caramel color production from grape and date and Microencapsulation of the color by freeze drying

مجله پژوهشهای علوم و صنایع غذایی ایران

Article 8, Volume 14, Issue 1 - Serial Number 49, March and April 2018, Pages 145-161   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/ifstrj.v1396i0.59917

Authors

Elnaz Ghaem far; Seyed Mahmoud Reza Hojjati^*

Department of Chemical Engineering, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction: Adding color to Foods can make them more appealing to consumers, to allow consumers to identify what taste to expect from a product, and to protect sensitive flavors from light. Color has always played a vital role in food selection and acceptance, and colorants are added to foods to alleviate color lost during processing. Caramel color, from the palest yellow to the deepest brown, accounts for more than 80% (by weight) of all colorants added to the foods we eat and drink (Sengar, et al., 2014).Because of sensitivity of liquid colors to oxidation, light and heat and difficulties in their handling and incorporating, dried pigments have been developed. Microencapsulation is a technique to package materials in the form of micro- and nano-particles. There are different methods for encapsulation in the food industry. Freeze drying which has a long dehydration period, has been used as a simple technique in encapsulating water-soluble essential oils and natural aromas or drugs (Khazaei, et al., 2014). In this work, in addition to liquid caramel color production, encapsulation of liquid color with freeze drying technique through wall materials of maltodextrin and Arabic gum were carried out. The stability of microencapsulated color was then evaluated.

Materials and Methods: Rish baba grape and Kabkab date syrup were obtained from local market. Ammonium chloride, citric acid, sodium hydroxide, tween 80, Arabic gum were purchased from Merck (Germany). Glycine and maltodextrin were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (USA) and Dextrose Company (Iran), respectively. In this study, the effect of factors such as type of catalyst (ammonium chloride-glycine), concentration of catalyst (0.5-2 molar), the pH of reaction (4-5), reaction time (60-120 minutes) on liquid color intensity of caramel produced from two natural sources of date and grape were investigated based on fractional factorial experimental design. For production of liquid caramel color, grape/date syrup was heated while being stirred to 65ᵒ C. Catalysts were then added to syrup and heated to 110ᵒC. water was added to reaction product and centrifuged. The solvent was removed by rotary evaporator (IKA HB 10, Germany).The resulting caramel color was stored under refrigeration at 4ᵒ C. In order to produce powder of caramel color, wall materials including Arabic gum and maltodextrin were dissolved in distilled water at ambient temperature to obtain 20% total solids concentration and stirred for 30 minutes at 60ᵒC. The mixture of liquid caramel color, tween80, and wall material solution was mixed in a ratio (w/w) of 1:4 (liquid caramel color: wall material) and stirred for 15 minutes. The mixture was then dried in a freeze dryer (ALPHA 1-2 LD PLUS, Germany) for 24 hours. The blank sample was prepared without wall materials and freeze-dried in similar conditions with other samples in 24 hours. Dried materials were collected and stored in brown glass bottles with screwed caps at 4⁰C until analysis. The powders were characterized using TGA/DSC thermogravimetric analysis (METTLER TOLEDO, USA), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) (TESCAN vegar, Czech Republic) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) (Billerica, MA, USA) to confirm the structural and morphological aspects of powders.

Results & Discussion: The results showed that the type of catalyst had no effect on the intensity of the colors and maximum color intensity (0.174 for color produced from grape and 0.15 for color produced from date) was obtained under these conditions: 120 minutes for reaction time, pH value = 4 and catalyst concentration of 2 molar. Results of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) indicated the increase of thermal resistance by microencapsulation process so that initial decomposition temperature for liquid form, without wall material, with Arabic gum and with maltodextrin for grape source were 114,138,162,185°C respectively and for date source were 113,131, 143, 180°C respectively. Results of Scanning electron microscope demonstrated that size of the powders were 11-55 μm. In conclusion, microencapsulation by freeze drying could be recommended as a suitable method for stabilizing caramel color.

Keywords

Food color; Caramel; Grape; Date; Factorial; Encapsulation

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