Industrialización de frutas exóticas: Carambola (Averrhoa Carambola) y Arazá (Eugenia Stipitata), empleando sacarosa y un edulcorante no calórico (Stevia) en conjunto con una evaluación de aceptabilidad en el mercado local

Abstract

This research work has as its main objective the industrialization of exotic fruits: carambola (Averrhoa carambola) and arazá (Eugenia stipitata), using sucrose or a noncaloric sweetener (Stevia) in conjunction with an evaluation of acceptability in the local market. For this, an investigation was carried out in primary sources from the background and generalities of the fruit such as origin, physical characteristics, cultivation areas, production process and industrialization of these fruits, being the unit operations used those of pasteurization, concentration, scalding, evacuation, sterilization to ensure the safety of the products and increase their lifetime, making their acceptability in the market grow. As main results granted by the market acceptance tests, it was shown that the products with a greater acceptance (90%) are spicy sauce, pulp, and arazá jam, therefore with these products, a cost study was carried out demonstrating the competitiveness that they have in the national market thanks to the low cost of raw material, also the design of the label and the physical, chemical, microbiological, bromatological and pollutant analyzes of these products that are within the limits established by The regulations in force are NTE INEN 2337 for pulp, NTE INEN 2825 for jams and NMX-F-377-1986 for hot sauce. The nutritional contribution of each of the products was also determined by comparing them with products on the market, seeing that there is no great difference. At the same time, in the present work, it demonstrates that the non-caloric products do not comply with the regulations in force, in Brix degrees, therefore they need to be called substitutes. One of the main conclusions of this work is that the product has viability in the market, thus helping the economic development of the country, also avoiding the waste of fruits to agricultural producer