THE EFFECT OF DRYING AND STORAGE OF SOYBEAN ON THE QUALITY OF BEAN, OIL, AND LECITHIN PRODUCTION

Abstract

ABSTRACT A comparative study of soybean drying was carried out between one-stage and two-stage (high–low temperature) drying with shade drying as control. In one-stage drying, the beans were dried at 80, 100, 120, and 140°C, respectively while in two-stage drying, beans were dried at 100, 120, and 140°C in the first stage followed by 80°C in the second stage. The evaluation values after drying showed that high drying temperature caused high skin cracks of the beans. Qualities of extracted crude oil characterized by free fatty acids (FFA), peroxide value (PV), phospholipids (PL) and nonhydratable phospholipids (NHP) were not significantly effected at p<0.05 by different drying methods but NHP had the increasing trend with the drying temperature and two-stage dried beans tended to have NHP higher than one-stage dried beans. The quality of protein in meal determined in terms of protein dispersibility index (PDI) was less than 15% when drying temperature in one-stage drying was higher than 80°C and when the temperature at the first stage of two-stage drying was higher than 100°C. Drying temperature also had the effect on the quality of lecithin when considered in term of the acetone insoluble value (AI). Free fatty acids of extracted crude oil increased when dried beans were stored for two months at 35°C while PL decreased especially in the first month of storage. However, the AI value of lecithin did not change with time.