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Doogh is a fermented dairy drink that produced with mixing of pasteurized yogurt, water, essential oils and salt. Due to low pH, doogh is susceptible to spoilage with mold and yeast that is the main challenge for its shelf life. At the same time, the consistency is very important in quality and marketability of doogh. Nowadays, the interesting of consumers to natural antimicrobial substances rather than chemical preservatives has been progressively increased. Chitosan is a derivative of chitin, unlike synthetic polymer compounds, is non-toxic and biodegradable in nature. The aim of this study was investigation on the effect of chitosan on the qualitative features and shelf life of doogh. In this research, chitosan was added to the doogh in four levels (0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3%) and qualitative characteristics of them were investigated by physico-chemical, microbiological and sensory analysis during 60 days. The results showed that, use of chitosan resulted decreasing of phase separation rate, acidity, mold and yeast, Streptococcus salivarius subspecies thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subspecies bulgaricus counts and increasing of viscosity and pH. So that, samples containing 0.3% chitosan had 97% decrease in phase separation rate, 24% decrease in acidity, 6% decrease in mold and yeast count, 19% decrease in Streptococcus salivarius count, 11% decrease in Lactobacillus delbrueckii count, 122% increase in viscosity and 15% increase in pH compared with control samples, at the last day of storage. In the case of sensory features, chitosan did not have any effect on the color and appearance of doogh, but had effect on the flavor and also consistency was improved.

Drying due to the adverse physical and chemical changes is one of the most difficult processes in the food industry, especially to produce garlic powder. In this study, in order to avoid the Maillard reaction, garlics were pretreated by 0.5% sodium metabisulfite, 10% NaCl and citric acid (up to pH = 4) solutions. For this purpose, first, fresh garlic, after preparation according to the usual industrial method, was immersed in the pretreatment solution for 2 minutes at room temperature. The treated garlic was dried using cabinet method at 80 °C and 90 °C to achieve 5.2% water content, and then stored for 60 days at room temperature to evaluation of some quality characteristics including moisture content, vitamin C content, browning level, flavonoid content and pH. Based on the obtained results, moisture content did not change significantly in all treatments during storage. Control sample (without pretreatment) had had the highest off color and browning. Flavonoid and vitamin C contents were reduced in pretreated samples due to their solubility in water. Generally, based on the obtained results, garlic powder produced by pretreatments had lighter color than control sample which could increase their market acceptance and pretreatment with salt had highest effect in the production of garlic powder with a suitable color.

Thermal pasteurization destroys bioactive compounds. Therefore, there is a need for a technique that provides microbial stability and stability while preserving biologically active compounds in grape juice. In recent years, the application of ultra-sonication in food processing has been considered for its ability to deactivate microorganisms with very little or no effect on bioactive compounds and nutritional properties of food. Ultrasound is considered as one of the potential non-thermal pasteurization techniques in the production of juices and is an effective method for maintaining the qualitative properties of juices. These properties have the advantage of thermal pasteurization. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of thermal ultrasound in comparison with the usual pasteurization method on bioactive compounds and some characteristics of red grape juice (Brix, pH, acidity, vitamin C, phenolic content, antioxidant properties and anthocyanin content).

In this research, the red grape juice was prepared from the fruit. The treatments were: controlled sample (without treatment), pasteurized sample (90 °C,30˝), heated sample at 60 °C for 4,8,12 min, ultrasound sample without heating for 4,8,12 min with amplitudes of 24.4, 42.7, 61 μm, ultrasound sample with heating (60 °C) for 4,8,12 min with 24.4, 42.7 and 61 μm amplitudes. The effect of treatments on Brix, pH and acidity, phenilic content, ascorbic acid content, antioxidant activity and anthocyanin content of the samples were investigated.

According to the results, the treatments did not have a significant effect on the pH, pH, and acidity of red grape juice. Pasteurization treatment caused the greatest reduction in the qualitative characteristics of the samples. The highest percentage of degradation of ascorbic acid content in red grape juice was 28.2% which was related to pasteurization treatment, and high temperatures at 60 ° C and long duration also had the most significant decrease in ascorbic acid compared to other treatments. The highest phenolic content was observed in treatment with temperature of 25 ° C and duration of 4 minutes with intensity 61 μm. The antioxidant activity of juice was significantly reduced by pasteurization and high temperatures with high levels. The highest antioxidant activity was related to treatment at 25 ° C for 8 minutes and 61 μm intensity, which increased antioxidant activity compared to control sample of 16.4%. Pasteurization treatment reduced 7.4% of the anthocyanin content of red grape juice and at high levels of sonication, increasing the duration and treatment temperature had a negative effect on the content of anthocyanin and reduced it to 7.9%.

According to the results of this study, it can be stated that pasteurization treatment in most cases had a negative effect on the qualitative traits of red grape juice and by using thermosonication in producing red juice at lower temperatures than pasteurization, higher qualitative traits can be achieved. Therefore, the use of average values of ultrasound intensity (42.7 μm) at 60 ° C for red grape juice is recommended.