Parâmetros de avaliação de desemprenho industrial e de qualidade tecnológica de arroz orgânico armazenado a vâcuo e em atmosfera convencional, em instalação industrial – um estudo de caso

Abstract

Rice is one of the main basic foods consumed worldwide, including Brazil, where it is part of gastronomic culture. Organic rice has gained prominence due to benefits perceived in terms of health and environment, and its demand has grown in recent years due to awareness of concepts of sustainable agriculture and concern for chemical waste in food. Consumers value the quality and origin of organic products, including rice. Its storage includes major challenges for the industry, due to the way it is conducted omnejo of the process, from the crop stage, with postharvest reflections, with essential steps to maintain its quality and avoid contamination by pests. , with the work, evaluate industrial performance and technological quality of organic rice grains under different storage conditions, with observations and analysis during October 2022 and March 2023 in the Josapar industry, in Pelotas, Rio Grande do South. Part of the grains was stored with bark part was whitening (peeled and polishing grains) in the way of industrialization of brown rice, packed in vacuum packaging (resistant plastic packaging) and conventional atmosphere (in bags), in the same industry, but in technically distinct environments. Throughout the storage, industrial and technological quality parameters consisting of peeling income, processing performance, industrial quality expressed by metabolic and non - metabolic defects, physical parameters and chemical composition were evaluated. The results show that the storage of grains with peel has provided industrial performance higher than the whitish stored grains and that vacuum packaging showed superior efficiency in the conservation of technological attributes of both bark stored grains and in the sprained stored.