{"id":10167,"date":"2025-10-23T04:23:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=10167"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:23:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:23:59","slug":"effect-of-drying-method-on-the-quality-characteristics-of-dried-parsley-mint-and-jews-mallow-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=10167","title":{"rendered":"Effect of drying method on the quality characteristics of dried parsley, mint and Jew\u2019s Mallow leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mohammed Massri(1)*<\/sup><\/strong> and Huda<\/strong> jansiz (1)<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

(1). Department of Food Science, University Homs, Homs, Syria .<\/span><\/p>\n

(*Corresponding author: <\/strong>Dr.Mohammed Massri. E-Maildr.mmmassri@ gmail.com<\/a>, Tel:\u00a0 0944555187)<\/span><\/p>\n

Received: 10\/10\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Accepted: 6\/04\/2025<\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Drying is one of the common and simple methods used to preserve plant materials, as this method increases the validity of the material by removing water from it, which leads to reducing the chemical and enzymatic reactions, or even inhibiting them sometimes. Parsley (Petroselinum crispum<\/em>), mint (Mentha piperita<\/em>) and Jew\u2019s Mallow (Corchorus olitorius<\/em> L) leaves were used in this study to evaluate the effect of drying methods (sun drying and oven drying at 30 \u00b0C and 50 \u00b0C) on the quality characteristics of dried materials.\u00a0 The moisture, water activity, vitamin C, antioxidant activity, total chlorine, color values *L, *a, *b and yield were estimated. The results showed that the moisture content in the fresh material and in the final dried product differed according to the type of material and the drying method used, as the higher drying temperature, due lower the moisture content in the leaves of the dried material, and the lowest moisture content was found in the oven drying method at 50\u00b0C. In the case of water activity, it was found that the lower the value of water activity when treated with oven drying at 50\u00b0C in dried Parsley (Petroselinum crispum<\/em>), mint (Mentha piperita<\/em>) and Jew\u2019s Mallow (Corchorus olitorius<\/em> L)\u00a0 leaves, with values of (0.379, 0.327 and 0.418) respectively. Also, a sharp decrease in vitamin C was observed with increasing drying temperature in all studied samples, for example, its value reached 55.64, 34.22, 25.17 and 12.13 (mg\/100 g) in the fresh sample and by drying in the sun, in the oven at 30\u00b0C and in the oven at 50\u00b0C consecutively it was found that the highest values in total phenolic compounds were in oven drying at 30\u00b0C, then in solar drying, then in oven drying at 40\u00b0C, and the antioxidant activity values were the highest possible in oven drying at 30\u00b0C, and the highest content of total chlorophyll was found in the drying method at 30\u00b0C. It was found that the solar drying method was the best in terms of color values *L, *a, and *b.\u00a0 For all the leaves of the studied samples. As for the effect of the drying method on the yield, it was found that the highest yield in the leaves of the studied plants after drying, it was found in the oven drying method at 30\u00b0C, as it reached 18.27, 20.66 and 28.97% Parsley (Petroselinum crispum<\/em>), mint (Mentha piperita<\/em>) and Jew\u2019s Mallow (Corchorus olitorius<\/em> L)leaves, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keywords<\/strong>: Drying methods, Parsley (Petroselinum crispum<\/em>), mint (Mentha piperita<\/em>) and Jew\u2019s Mallow (Corchorus olitorius<\/em> L), quality characteristics<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Full paper in Arabic: PDF<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mohammed Massri(1)* and Huda jansiz (1) (1). Department of Food Science, University Homs, Homs, Syria . (*Corresponding author: Dr.Mohammed Massri. E-Maildr.mmmassri@ gmail.com, Tel:\u00a0 0944555187) Received: 10\/10\/2024\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Accepted: 6\/04\/2025 Abstract:\u00a0 Drying is one of the common and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10170,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167\/revisions\/10170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}