The results in Table 4 revealed that the yields of both capsaicinoids
and red pigments are higher from FRPs than those from
DRPs. In details, the yield of capsaicinoids from FRPs was about 25%
higher than that from DRPs by thermal drying oven at 50 C.
However, the yield of red pigments from FRPs was about 2.2-fold
that of DRPs, which is basically agreed with that previous observation
(Major pigment losses have been described by applying
conventional air-drying techniques during industrial processing
with a decrease of ca. 60% in total carotenoid content (Minguez-
Mosquera et al., 1993)).