Physico-chemical and antioxidant properties of barberry juice powder and its effervescent tablets

Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Table1 Properties of spray-dried barberry powder

Sample	Moisture (%)	Water activity	Product yield (%)	Encapsulation efficiency (%)	Anthocyanin content (mg/100 g)	Antioxidant activity (%)	Phenolic content (mg GAE/100 g)
10 M	3.5 ± 1.08^a	0.25 ± 0.03^a	51.36 ± 1.26^a	84.62 ± 1.45^b	49.31 ± 4.49^b	69.34 ± 2.44^b	98.76 ± 2.34^b
13 M	2.22 ± 0.48^b	0.24 ± 0.02^a	56.01 ± 2.43^b	89.53 ± 3.44^a	56.36 ± 0.83^a	75.46 ± 1.31^a	113.44 ± 3.76^a
16 M	2.51 ± 0.54^b	0.24 ± 0.05^a	62.77 ± 1.89^a	89.40 ± 2.61^a	56.28 ± 1.18^a	73.99 ± 4.71^a	111.23 ± 4.80^a

Different letters of each column show a significant difference at the level of p ≤ 0.05