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. 2023 Jan 20;9(2):e13093. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13093

Table 2.

Moisture content of pasteurized and sterilized eggshell powder after further heat treatments.

Treatment conditions	Time (min)	Moisture content (%)
Treatment conditions	Time (min)	Pasteurized at 95 °C for 60 min	Sterilized at 121 °C for 15 min
No further heating (control)	–	0.538 ± 0.091^a	0.488 ± 0.127^a
Hot air treatment at 200 °C	10	0.406 ± 0.069^abc	0.242 ± 0.140^b
	20	0.314 ± 0.124^bc	0.492 ± 0.175^a
	30	0.264 ± 0.082^c	0.329 ± 0.065^ab
Infrared treatment at 1050 W	10	0.365 ± 0.018^abc	0.327 ± 0.092^ab
	20	0.401 ± 0.027^abc	0.236 ± 0.036^b
	30	0.482 ± 0.176^ab	0.165 ± 0.023^b
Microwave treatment at 900 W	1	0.423 ± 0.089^abc	0.250 ± 0.125^b
	2	0.416 ± 0.039^abc	0.216 ± 0.071^b
	3	0.436 ± 0.066^abc	0.213 ± 0.063^b

^a–c Values (mean ± standard deviation) in same column with different lowercase letters are significantly (P ≤ 0.05) different.