Chemical And Technological Studies On Some Fruits And Other Nutritional Raw Materials Characterized Of North Sinai:

Gamil Fayez Bareh Fanous

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONTwo varieties of peach cultivated in North Sinai mainly freestone and clingstone as the latter is juicy and both depends partly on rain for irrigation. Beside the aforementioned peach, tomato in addition to sage and thyme which is characterized in North Sinai region.Mainly we dehydrated peach and tomato to sheets and slices, while thyme and sage were dehydrated as leaves. Sheets, slices and all samples were stored and evaluated chemically periodically. We can summarize the values. from the nutritional point of view and during storage for exportation as follows.1. Peach products1.Sugars raised 4 times of fresh fruit keeping value up to 12 months storage in dehydrated sheets and slices.2.Drying of peach lower its contents of protein.3.Drying of peach showed higher values in samples dried as sheets of freestone hence clingstone showed lower protein contents.4.Vitamin C was concentrated in dried peach products.5.According to soil and environments Sinai peach have noticeable amounts of potassium and free of heavy metals.6.Minerals in peach products satisfy human requirements exceeding WHO limits as a new products in the Egyptian market.7.Sheets of peach were preferred and accepted by children and adults in hospitals of Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Medicine.1802. Tomato products8.Tomato sheets and slices satisfy the home use instead of concentrates and was very important in saving loss and reducingprices.9.Tomato products ”sheets and slices” saved 70% of the deteriorated products.10.Transportation and storing were less expense for such important commodities.11.Nutrients in both sheets and of both peach and tomatowere kept at reasonable level after long time storage at roomtemperature.12.Such simple technology of del-i-jdration could help for youth as a limited and non expensive pr()ie34-13 which gave profits more than 100%.13.Lycopene in tomato pro‘; was kept as antioxidantscomponents in a simple ()f processed commodity usingclean energy of no wastes.3. Medicinal herbs14.Herbs useful as drinks and good source for curing somecommon asthma, driving phlegmy matter from thoraxappeared as dried matter for warms, killing lice.15.Dehydrated thyme showed -;;-=.:ngthen the memory as tea.16.Finally, for the first once and slices of both peach and tomato appeared at pilot s.2 for consumption in addition to dehydrated thyme and sage herbs to be used as drinks giving medical importance.17.Such products did not need --_-:-:—geration for storage in addition to its light weight:18. New cheap technology had been created for graduates and youth for nice investigation.182