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Review
. 2023 Nov 24;12(23):4255.
doi: 10.3390/foods12234255.

Sea Buckthorn Pretreatment, Drying, and Processing of High-Quality Products: Current Status and Trends

Xuetao Zhang  1 , Mengqing Li  1 , Lichun Zhu  1 , Zhihua Geng  1 , Xinyu Liu  1 , Zheyu Cheng  1 , Mengxu Zhao  1 , Qian Zhang  2 , Xuhai Yang  1   3
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Sea Buckthorn Pretreatment, Drying, and Processing of High-Quality Products: Current Status and Trends

Xuetao Zhang et al. Foods. .

Abstract

Sea buckthorn is a kind of berry rich in nutritional and industrial value. Due to its thin skin, juicy pulp, and short shelf life, it is usually preserved via freezing methods or directly processed into sea buckthorn puree after harvest. It can also be dried and processed into products such as dried sea buckthorn fruit, freeze-dried sea buckthorn powder, and sea buckthorn oil. This review, therefore, provides an overview of the existing state of drying and high-quality processing of sea buckthorn. The effects of different pretreatment and drying techniques on the drying characteristics and quality of sea buckthorn and the existing problems of superior-quality processing of sea buckthorn products are summarised. The development trend of sea buckthorn drying methods and the ways to achieve high-quality processing of sea buckthorn products are indicated. These ways are mainly related to the following: (1) The application of combined pretreatment and drying techniques to find a balance between economy, ecology, and efficiency; (2) Introducing new online measurement and control technology into drying equipment; (3) Optimising the existing process to form a complete sea buckthorn industrial chain and develop the sea buckthorn deep-processing industry.

Keywords: drying kinetics; drying quality; high-quality process; research progress; sea buckthorn.

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Changes in the surface of sea buckthorn pulp after pretreatment and drying.
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Application examples of sea buckthorn high-quality processing and products.
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The two-dimensional structure of the infrared-radiation-assisted hot-air dryer [43].
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