Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Cooling – freezing – or treating cooled or frozen product,...
Patent
1985-11-12
1987-03-03
Yeung, George
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Cooling, freezing, or treating cooled or frozen product,...
426509, A23L 336
Patent
active
046474692
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a method of freezing peeled apple pieces and the like wherein the apple pieces are blanched, dried and frozen.
One has already preserved apple pieces by deep-freezing, and in that case the procedure has been applied wherein the apple pieces initially have been dipped into a solution of ascorbic acid and/or sodium chloride or in a syrup and then have been frozen. In this procedure, the energy consumption during freezing is high, because a lot of water is frozen together with the apple pieces. Already for this reason the procedure is not satisfactory, but in addition to this the additives applied to the apple pieces by dipping may cause a defective taste, and the apple pieces when unfrozen, will be wet and swampy and in no way will behave as fresh apple pieces but will collapse.
According to the Swedish patent specification No. 125,580, vegetables, fruit, etc. are parboiled at about 100.degree. C. Then, cooling in vacuum takes place, the evaporated water cooling down and drying the goods which are then frozen. Due to the fact that the product is parboiled at such high temperature as 100.degree. C., the cell structure will be broken down and since it is reasonable to assume that too much water is left in the product at freezing and will cause bursting of the cells during freezing, the product after freezing and unfreezing will be soft and will have little resemblance with the fresh original, because it will lack the vitality and firmness which is characteristic for the fresh product.
U.S. patent specification No. 2,425,714 relates to quick-freezing of foods wherein the goods initially are blanched at a temperature over 74.degree. C., but the temperature can be as high as 110.degree. C. One has not realized the importance of the cells not being broken down, because it is not mentioned more precisely how far the drying of the products is to be carried, and also one has not realized that the temperature at blanching must not be too low, because the browning enzyme polyphenolic oxidase then will not be inhibited, which is necessary in order to avoid browning of the apple pieces. As in case of the Swedish patent specification No. 125,580 typically "boiled" products are concerned, which after unfreezing have little resemblance with the fresh product as far as vitality and firmness are concerned.
The British patent specification No. 2,005,983 relates to a method of preserving fruit, e.g. apples, or vegetables, which initially are boiled for 5 to 45 minutes at a temperature which is below about 82.degree. C. Then, the goods are heated at a temperature in the range from 66.degree. to 93.degree. C. for 5 to 20 minutes in order to reduce the moisture content by about 1 to 15% before freezing takes place. Since the heating is carried to a temperature of more than 60.degree. C., there will be formed at drying a skin on the surface of the goods being dried, which prevents liquid from being expelled from the goods. The products obtained according to the British patent specification obviously have to be boiled or fried before use.
A further preservation method has been applied to apple rings including initial treatment of the apple rings with sulphur to avoid miscolouring (browning), and then drying of the apple rings. The addition of sulphur is not desired, because such addition influences the smell as well as the taste.
Summarizing, it can be noted that so far nobody has realized the importance of the necessity of limiting the blanching to a specific temperature in order not to cause breakdown of the cells in the product being treated, and reducing the liquid content of these products to a low value and under such conditions that no miscolouring of the product is caused and no skin is formed on the product, which prevents continued expelling of liquid from the product.
In other words there is no satisfactory procedure of preserving apple pieces. The preserved product in no way will resemble the fresh product when it is to be used, and in the food handling the endeavour is to avoid as far as
REFERENCES:
patent: 2425714 (1947-08-01), Baer
Jakobsson Maja
Sjoholm Ingegerd
Skjoldebrand Christina
Karakas - Kiviks Fruktodlingar & Musteri Aktiebolag
Yeung George
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