Influence of water activity on thermal resistance of microorganisms in low‐moisture foods: a review

RM Syamaladevi, J Tang, R Villa‐Rojas… - … Reviews in Food …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A number of recent outbreaks related to pathogens in low‐moisture foods have created
urgency for studies to understand the possible causes and identify potential treatments to …

[HTML][HTML] Recent development in low-moisture foods: Microbial safety and thermal process

S Liu, MS Roopesh, J Tang, Q Wu, W Qin - Food research international, 2022 - Elsevier
Foodborne outbreaks and recalls of pathogen-contaminated low-moisture foods (LMFs,
foods with water activity at 25° C< 0.85) have led to numerous scientific studies on bacterial …

Effect of germination on the chemical composition, thermal, pasting, and moisture sorption properties of flours from chickpea, lentil, and yellow pea

M Xu, Z Jin, S Simsek, C Hall, J Rao, B Chen - Food chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Chemical composition, thermal, pasting, and moisture adsorption properties of flours from
chickpea (Cicer aretinium L.), lentil (Lens culinaris Merr.), and yellow pea (Pisum sativum L.) …

Probiotic encapsulation in water-in-water emulsion via heteroprotein complex coacervation of type-A gelatin/sodium caseinate

M Zhao, X Huang, H Zhang, Y Zhang, M Gänzle… - Food …, 2020 - Elsevier
The production of dried probiotic bacterial cells that are shelf stable at room temperature
remains challenging. In this work, the potential of encapsulation of probiotic Lactobacillus …

Radio-frequency applications for food processing and safety

Y Jiao, J Tang, Y Wang, TL Koral - Annual Review of Food …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Radio-frequency (RF) heating, as a thermal-processing technology, has been extending its
applications in the food industry. Although RF has shown some unique advantages over …

Microbial validation of radio frequency pasteurization of wheat flour by inoculated pack studies

S Liu, S Ozturk, J Xu, F Kong, P Gray, MJ Zhu… - Journal of Food …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study developed a microbial validation method for radio frequency (RF) pasteurization
of low-moisture food powders. Wheat flour with water activity of 0.45±0.02 was used as a …

High temperature water activity as a key factor influencing survival of Salmonella Enteritidis PT30 in thermal processing

J Xu, J Tang, Y Jin, J Song, R Yang, SS Sablani… - Food Control, 2019 - Elsevier
Salmonella in low-moisture foods has enhanced thermal tolerance and is difficult to control.
The objective of this research was to study relationship between thermal tolerance of …

Systematic review and meta-analysis of time-temperature pathogen inactivation

MF Espinosa, AN Sancho, LM Mendoza… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Heat treatment, or thermal disinfection, is one of the simplest disinfection methods, and is
widely used in the water, sanitation, and food sectors, especially in low resource settings …

Exponentially increased thermal resistance of Salmonella spp. and Enterococcus faecium at reduced water activity

S Liu, J Tang, RK Tadapaneni, R Yang… - Applied and …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Salmonella spp. exhibit prolonged survivability and high tolerance to heat in low-moisture
foods. The reported thermal resistance parameters of Salmonella spp. in low-moisture foods …

The influence of temperature and water activity on thermal resistance of Salmonella in milk chocolate

S Sun, Y Xie, R Yang, MJ Zhu, S Sablani, J Tang - Food Control, 2023 - Elsevier
Salmonella contamination of chocolate-derived products has caused several outbreaks and
recalls in recent years. Earlier research found that reducing moisture content or water activity …