Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: In this study a farm scale plastic high tunnel hothouse dryer was investigated to dry red chili pepper grown in southeastern Anatolian region.Hothouse dryer was installed in Kahramanmaraş where this crop is intensively cultivated.For drying purpose the green stem was removed manually and then material was split into two pieces.The core of seed was also removed.The fleshes of red chili peppers were placed on the shelf as a thin layer by a density of 2 kg/m 2 .In this study the lost of moisture from crop and color change were measured.For first and second harvested red chili peppers drying duration varied between 26 and 27 hours.As the control sun-dried chili peppers was placed by 50 cm height from the ground in outside.The moisture loss from solar dried chili peppers was 2 to 4% higher than that of sun-dried variant.Although the drying time of solar and sun dried crops was similar, it is expected that the solar dried crops would resulted in higher food quality and safety.Thus the color of solar dried chili was much shining red in compare to sun-dried variant.Hothouse dryers have been already tested for different crops in laboratory scale.However, the implementation of farm scale hothouse dryer by using national and international funds would be a proper strategy to provide more information regarding to marketing advantages and management experiences on this issue.
Source: DergiPark (Istanbul University)
Authors: Serdar Öztekin, Bekir Yelmen
Institution: Cukurova University
Language: English
Topic: Food Drying and Modeling
Subfield: Food Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2118760164