SUCROSE HYDROLYSIS AT LIMITED WATER CONCENTRATION.
Abstract
To enable development of a model describing reaction kinetics in dehydrated foods, sucrose hydrolysis was studied at limited water concentration. Saturated sucrose solutions containing various acids and inert solid materials gave identical rate constants and energy of activation as predicted from dilute solutions. Reaction rates in freeze-dried systems humidified to low moisture content indicated that any equation describing the rate of hydrolysis must include a term for the velocity of dissolution of solid sucrose into the surface water. The rate of hydrolysis was a pseudo first-order reaction obeying the same kinetics as in dilute solution; the rate of dissolution became rate-limiting when the initial supply of dissolved sucrose was exhausted. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 26, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0678035
Entities
People
- S. R. Tannenbaum
- T. P. Labuza
- T. Schoebel
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology