Extracción y encapsulamiento de ácidos grasos de semillas de maracuyá

Abstract

Abstract: This research work has the purpose of extracting and encapsulating passion fruit oil, fulfilling all the necessary studies required by emulsions with the following materials: gum arabic, maltodextrin and tween 20; which were finally dried using the BUCHI Mini Spray Dryer B-290 equipment. The factors that were studied were the ratio of encapsulants, the drying temperature and the percentage of flow of the pump. Subsequent to that, the characterization of each encapsulated sample was carried out, with a final humidity result of a total of 0.15% to 2.45% (maltodextrin-gum arabic). A density value between 0.338 and 0.511 was also obtained. an efficiency value between 52% to 94% and an atomization performance of 71.14% to 88.86%. When carrying out the statistical analysis for efficiency, it is observed that the most efficient encapsulating material was with maltodextrin: gum arabic is 16.44%. The yield of the oil in the encapsulation was recorded as 83.57%. Passion fruit oil contains several fatty acids, which is why it is important to propose conservation techniques and subsequent use in the form of microencapsulations.