Drying Kinetics of Green Bitter Gourd (Momordica charantia L.) Slices in a Fluidized Bed Dryer

Scientific Study from the year 2015 in the subject Engineering - General, , language: English, abstract: Green Bitter gourds (Momordica charantia L.) belong to ‘cucurbitacceae’ family and are commonly called as bitter gourd, papailla, karalla, balsam apple and balsam pear etc. in different part of the world Bitter gourd contains an array of biologically active plant chemicals including triterpenes, protein and steroids. Bitter gourd have extremely low amount of calories but have a lot of va...