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Corn-lime-cooking-liquor (nejayote), which is a pollutant wastewater from the corn-tortilla-industry, contains valuable products, such as arabinoxylans (AXs) and phenolics. Recently, an innovative process that employs enzymatic and ultrafiltration processes for recovering and purifying AXs from nejayote was described, although neither the drying methods nor the physicochemical and rheological properties of the recovered AXs by this method at the pilot plant scale have been studied. Nejayote from a batch artisanal process (NBAP) and from a continuous industrial process (NCIP) were compared with a corn-bran-hydrolysate (CBH) as sources for AXs obtention. Freeze drying (FD), spray drying (SD) and solvent drying (SoD) were assessed as processes for drying purified and concentrated AXs solutions. Regardless of the process, AXs obtained from nejayote contain 3 times less (0.30 mg/g) esterified ferulic acid …