Fruit Freeze-drying Process with Antioxidants

Abstract

The objective of this article is to collect information on the process of freeze-drying fruits with antioxidants with the application in the food industry and its commercialization, as well as to describe its antioxidant capacities and health benefits. Through the search for theses, scientific articles, university repositories with the respective criteria that allows establishing the results of various authors, where they also talk about freeze-drying to prolong the useful life of fruits. Since it is a process that allows to preserve all the nutrients and the phenolic compounds and the antioxidants mainly. The export of fruits is a growth of the national market destined for Dubai and freeze-drying meets high quality standards so that it is supplied to the market frequently and permanently. It is concluded that freeze-drying is a very complete method to preserve nutritional properties, which results in obtaining products with similar characteristics to the initial raw material.