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Milled Rice Physical Properties after Various Radio Frequency Heat Treatment

Parichat Theanjumpol, Sa-nguansak Thanapornpoonpong, Elke Pawelzik, Suchada Vearasilp

Book of Abstract. Tropentag 2007: International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Utilisation of diversity in land use systems: Sustainable and organic approaches to meet human needs, October 2007, Witzenhausen

2007

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Milled Rice Physical Properties after Various Radio Frequency Heat Treatment

The purpose of this research was to study the effect of the radio frequency (RF) heat treatment o­n the quality of milled rice cv. Khao Dawk Mali 105. The experiment was conducted at the RF laboratory in the Postharvest Technology Institute, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai (Thailand). Milled rice samples, each of 500 g, were treated by the RF frequency at 27.12 MHz for 3 minutes at five different temperatures (room temperature, 45, 60, 75 and 90°C, respectively). Milled rice quality was evaluated, e.g. physical properties (grain colour, moisture content), cooking quality (hardness and stickiness) and the processing quality (pasting properties, viscosity). SPSS was used to analyse the variance of the data.

The results showed that treatment temperatures higher than 60°C affected the colour of the milled rice, e.g. lightness (L*-value) and yellowness (b*-value) increased. Also the cooking quality was influenced to that effect that the kernel hardness increased while the stickiness decreased. The pasting properties and especially the viscosity decreased too as they were determined by means of peak viscosity, through, breakdown, final viscosity and setback. The RF treatment at 90°C caused the strongest changes in milled rice quality. However, for most of the studied properties no significant differences were found if treatments at temperatures below 60°C were compared.

The results of our research are the first and need validation. Furthermore, for future research the evaluation of the sensory quality should be included.