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Emerging Technologies for Food Processing, 2nd Edition
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Emerging Technologies for Food Processing, 2nd Edition

by Da-Wen Sun
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
41h 38m
English
Academic Press
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Chapter 9

Enzymatic Inactivation by Pulsed Electric Fields

Olga Martín-Belloso, Á. Robert Marsellés-Fontanet,  and Pedro Elez-Martínez     Department of Food Technology, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain

Abstract

In the food processing area, Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) is a non-thermal technology for food preservation. The food product is repeatedly subjected to a transitory but very intense electric environment generated by electrodes at different electric voltage. The abrupt electrical alteration inactivates enzymes and kills microorganisms, yielding safe foods with fresh-like flavor and taste without significant loss of nutrients. PEF technology, therefore, could be an alternative preservation method that avoids the negative effects of thermal ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780124114791