Table 3 Effects of wall materials on the colour of the spray-dried bitter gourd powders

From: Effects of wall materials on the physicochemical properties of spray-dried bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) powders

Wall materials

Colour parameters (\(\bar{{\rm{\chi }}}\) ±SD)

L*

a*

b*

Chroma

Hue angle

NE

49.713 ± 0.39a

7.18 ± 0.14f

18.88 ± 0.17a

20.20

69.19

SPI

67.13 ± 0.24e

7.75 ± 0.06°

30.71 ± 0.13d

31.67

−75.84

LCC

66.54 ± 0.09d

3.68 ± 0.02b

30.85 ± 0.1d

31.07

−83.19

GA

65.77 ± 0.07c

2.61 ± 0.13c

30.98 ± 0.14d

31.09

−85.19

MD

67.36 ± 0.16e

0.31 ± 0.03d

29.3 ± 0.16c

29.31

−89.4

RS

62.73 ± 0.13b

0.24 ± 0.0e

25.72 ± 0.14b

25.72

89.47

  1. Different lowercase letters in a column indicate significant differences (p < 0.05).
  2. NE nonencapsulated, SPI soybean protein isolate, LCC lecithin calcium caseinate, GA gum arabic, MD maltodextrin, RS resistant starch.