Table 4. Impact of inlet temperature (ti) and maltodextrin (MD) mass fraction on wettability, polarity and particle size of aronia powders produced with MD DE 19.7 at constant outlet temperature (to=80 °C).
ti/°C | w(MD)/% | Θ/˚ | γ/(mN/m) | Polarity/% | Particle size/μm | ||
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Water | Diiodomethane | Length | Width | ||||
120 | 20 | 40.29 | 37.90 | 64.40 | 42.87 | (10.0±1.3)ab | (7.6±0.9)ab |
120 | 40 | 41.70 | 38.21 | 64.33 | 42.90 | (11.7±1.2)a | (9.8±0.7)a |
120 | 60 | 42.98 | 39.72 | 65.87 | 43.78 | (12.3±1.1)a | (10.0±1.0)a |
140 | 20 | 39.21 | 41.13 | 65.89 | 45.98 | (5.0±2.1)c | (4.1±0.1)b |
140 | 40 | 38.80 | 40.03 | 65.25 | 44.93 | (5.8±1.8)bc | (7.1±1.7)ab |
140 | 60 | 38.76 | 39.87 | 66.01 | 44.86 | (5.9±1.0)bc | (4.0±1.9)b |
160 | 20 | 39.92 | 38.34 | 64.36 | 41.45 | (6.4±0.1)bc | (4.0±1.4)b |
160 | 40 | 40.95 | 36.47 | 65.15 | 42.53 | (6.7±2.4)bc | (4.7±1.1)b |
160 | 60 | 42.76 | 37.82 | 65.39 | 43.45 | (7.2±0.4)bc | (4.0±2.1)b |
Results are shown as mean value±standard deviation (N=3). Different letters within a column indicate a significant difference based on Tukey's HSD test at p<0.05. Θ=contact angle, γ=surface free energy