DEVELOPMENT OF A TECHNICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CARROT NECTAR

The modern food market forms a need for two trends for the development, production and sale of products: taking into account the demand of consumers and taking into account lack of irreplaceable (functional) micronutrients in the diet of different population groups. It is advisable to develop technical and technological solutions for innovative ideas at a higher institution, which are tested in business incubators (small innovative enterprises) with the interaction of scientists and production workers. The study objects included: the carrots of different varieties of the crop of 2015-2017 grown in the climatic conditions of the Kemerovo region; the syrup based on Lesovichok plant raw materials; pectolytic, amylolytic and cytolytic enzymatic preparations. Modern research methods have been used in the study. The antioxidant activity was determined using the coulometric method; the content of dry soluble substances - using the refractometric method; the size of carrot particles in the semi-finished products and the finished product - by means of microscopy using a CT-2200 electron microscope; the strength characteristics of raw materials - using Structurometer St-1. As a result of the studies, a product with a high antioxidant activity - carrot nectar developed using hybrid technologies - has been obtained. On the basis of the results of the study of the structural and mechanical properties of carrots, two-stage grinding has been proposed with the subsequent biotechnological processing of raw materials (semi-finished products), which provides specified consumer properties. The high antioxidant activity of the developed nectar has been experimentally confirmed.