Table 3: Physical and physicochemical characterization of green banana biomass and passion fruit peel flours.
Analysis**
Flours
F1
F2
Water content
8.5 ± 0.2b
10.4 ± 0.1a
Water activity
0.500 ± 0.002a
0.500 ± 0.001a
Colour
L*
64.2 ± 0.3b
71.0 ± 0.1a
a*
9.1 ± 0.2a
4.1 ± 0.1b
b*
19 ± 1b
24 ± 1a
F1: Green banana biomass flour; F2: passion fruit peel flour.
** average of three replicates (± standard deviation).
*** Averages followed by the same letter, in the same row, do not differ statistically at 5% probability, by the Tukey test.