Modeling of Food Digestion
S. Marze1 Biopolymères Interactions Assemblages, INRA, Nantes, France1Chapter coordinator.
Abstract
Food digestion is a complex biological process requiring various interrelated physicochemical actions. Food is broken down in the digestive tube by enzymatic reactions, mechanical forces, and nutrients are transported by advection, diffusion… Limiting steps in such a complex system are difficult to identify and to quantify experimentally, making it necessary to develop models and simulations. In this chapter, historical macroscale modeling based on transport phenomena (mainly mass or momentum transfer) is presented. Then, microscale modeling where the food structural features are considered is introduced. ...
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