Flowability, Rehydration Behaviour and bioactive Compounds of an Orange Powder Product as Affected by Particle Size

Abstract

Abstract By offering a powder that ensures the healthy value of the fruits, a proper flowability and adequate viscosity after rehydration, there could be an opportunity to promote fruit consumption. The particle size is of critical importance with regard to the properties of a powder. But the separation of a product by particle size is usually associated with compositional changes. In this study, an orange powder product with the same composition but different particle size was compared. The particle sizes considered (269 ± 4, 189 ± 4, 118 ± 3 µm) offer a product with the same bioactive compound content and guarantee a good powder flowability: angle of repose, compressibility, density, porosity and Hausner’s and Carr’s indexes. Nevertheless, grinding can be used as a simple green technology with which to adjust the particle size so as to obtain rehydrated products with differing viscosities and, therefore, powders with different applications: the smaller the particle size, the lower the viscosity.