Feasibility Study for Production of Green Banana Flour in a Spray Dryer

Abstract

The green banana biomass is a component that can be industrially applied to a wide variety of foods because don’t interfere in the sensory attributes of others ingredients and has functional properties, especially the presence of resistant starch. This use can be expanded if this product be produced in powder form. This research presents a feasibility study for production of green banana flour in spray dryer with rotary atomizer. The variables selected in the experimental procedure were: type of atomizer, biomass’s concentration, atomizer’s rotation, biomass’s temperature and biomass’s flow rate. It was defined as response the mass and the moisture content of the product. These variables had two levels of variation, which corresponded to the completion of 32 tests. In this study it was proved the feasibility to produce green banana flour in spray drying process.