Objective:
I have decided to take one more trial on onion, to overcome the problem of fungus infection and spoiling onion and to maintain the food value of onion. I have referred the following paper on the nutritive value of food.
Procedure:
The procedure I followed was as follows,
- I took 17 Kg onion to cut.
- It had 5 kg of waste and 12 kg clean onion.
- I have washed 12 kg onion in clean water because some of the onions were infected by fungus.
- Then I have loaded 12 kg onion on dome dryer as follows,
- On 1st plate- 1 kg onions were loaded
- On 2nd plate- 1.5 kg onions were loaded
- On 3rd plate- 2 kg onions were loaded
- On 4th plate- 2.4 kg onions were loaded
- On 5th plate- 2.6 kg onions were loaded
- On 6th plate- 2.6 kg onions were loaded
5. Batch started on 27 NOV’18 at 3:50 pm.
6. Took 12 samples to find out water loss on drying(LOD) in onions, 2 from each plate, Inside and Outside.
fig1. dried onion after 1 day from batch loaded
fig2. Dried onion
Conclusion:
There was no fungus infected and no bad smell came. Onions dried well as compared to last 2 onion trials. It seems this is a successful trial of onion .
Next Plan:
After successful trial of onion I am looking forward for another substrate to dry without loosing their food value “The nutritional value of a foodstuff “.
