Qualidade do café em coco e em pergaminho armazenados em atmosfera modificada

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Sperotto, Felipe Carlos Spneski [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Café - Embalagens; Café - Qualidade; Café - Armazenamento; Coffee
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110951

New forms of packaging are studied to increase the storage time of the coffee beans without loss of quality occurs. The objective was to assess, chemical, enzymatic, physical and sensory quality of coffee beans (Coffea arabica L.) undergoing different types of packaging (silo-bag and jute bag) and processing (coconut and parchment) two different storage environments (higrotémico under normal and stress). The coffee beans were stored in adverse conditions of relative humidity of 80% and alternating temperature (30oC to 25oC for 16 hours and 8 hours) for 150 days. The experimental design was completely randomized in a 2x2 factorial triple +2 (two packs, two runs and two controls to each processing) with three replications. The study was conducted at the Department of Rural Engineering, Universidade Estadual Paulista, School of Agronomic Sciences, Botucatu. To assess the quality sensory analyzes, water content, fat acidity, electrical conductivity, color assessment, total sugars, density and polyphenol oxidase enzyme activity were made. After data acquisition, they were subjected to analysis of variance and means were compared by Tukey test at 5% probability. It can be concluded that the silo-bag in modified atmosphere, after five months of storage, managed to avoid rewetting of grain and possible minor loss of quality of the beverage in relation to jute bag for both the parchment coffee as for coffee coconut, but favored the bleaching process of the grains in all storage environments. The analysis of free fatty acids, conductivity and PPO enzyme activity corroborated the results of sensory analysis, indicating the best protection offered by the silo-bag, after five months of storage at ambient conditions with stress.