In both geometries, SI pretreatment caused an important
water content decrease after air drying when compared
with their respective control samples. Water content of A-SI
samples was 4.67±0.11 g water/100 g d.w. for dices and 6.12
±0.14 g water/100 d.w. for discs, whereas in their respective
control samples was 9.3±0.2 g water/100 g d.w. for dices and
10.0±0.3 g water/100 g d.w. for discs. However, when freeze
drying was applied to samples with SI pretreatment (8.4±
0.2 g water/100 g d.w. for dices; 10.10±0.16 g water/100 g