Effect of Cold Plasma Pretreatment Coupled with Osmotic Dehydration on Drying Kinetics and Quality of Mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)

SHM Ashtiani, MH Aghkhani, J Feizy… - Food and Bioprocess …, 2023 - Springer
Osmotic dehydration (OD) is widely used to partially remove water from plant tissues and
enrich it with functional compounds. The high mass transfer resistance of the plant cellular …

Application of differential scanning calorimetry to estimate quality and nutritional properties of food products

O Parniakov, O Bals, FJ Barba… - Critical reviews in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Over the past years, both food researchers and food industry have shown an increased
interest in finding techniques that can estimate modifications in quality, nutritional, and …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of the quality and stability of freeze-dried fruits and vegetables pre-treated by pulsed electric fields (PEF)

M Giancaterino, C Werl, H Jaeger - LWT, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the application of Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) technology to improve
the freeze-drying process, the final product quality and the stability of kiwi fruits, red bell …

Effect of pulsed electric field pretreatment on shrinkage, rehydration capacity and texture of freeze-dried plant materials

T Fauster, M Giancaterino, P Pittia, H Jaeger - Lwt, 2020 - Elsevier
For this study, strawberries and red bell peppers were pre-treated with pulsed electric fields
(PEF) to reduce the negative effects on physical properties of the products after freeze …

Pulsed electric field assisted vacuum freeze-drying of apple tissue

O Parniakov, O Bals, N Lebovka, E Vorobiev - Innovative Food Science & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Impact of apple treatment by pulsed electric field (PEF) on vacuum freeze-drying was
studied. Apple discs were PEF treated at an electric field strength of E= 800 V/cm for the …

Combined effect of pulsed electric field and osmotic dehydration pre-treatments on mass transfer and quality of air dried goji berry

E Dermesonlouoglou, A Chalkia, G Dimopoulos… - Innovative Food Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Pulsed electric field (PEF) and osmotic dehydration (OD) pre-treatments can improve the
slow and energy intensive process of goji berry drying. The effect of PEF and OD processing …

Application of osmotic dehydration to improve the quality of dried goji berry

E Dermesonlouoglou, A Chalkia, P Taoukis - Journal of food engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Quality and preservation of dried goji berry can be improved with the application of osmotic
dehydration (OD) as a pre-treatment step. The aim was to optimize OD conditions based on …

Energy and quality aspects of freeze-drying preceded by traditional and novel pre-treatment methods as exemplified by red bell pepper

K Rybak, O Parniakov, K Samborska, A Wiktor… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Freeze-drying is one of the most expensive and most energy intensive processes applied in
food technology. Therefore, there have been significant efforts to reduce the freeze-drying …

Effects of pulsed electric fields assisted osmotic dehydration on freezing-thawing and texture of apple tissue

O Parniakov, O Bals, N Lebovka, E Vorobiev - Journal of Food Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
The effects of pulsed electric fields (PEF) assisted partial dehydration of apple tissue on
freezing-thawing processes and texture characteristics were studied. The apple disks were …

Effects of pulsed electric fields and preliminary vacuum drying on freezing assisted processes in potato tissue

C Liu, N Grimi, O Bals, N Lebovka… - Food and Bioproducts …, 2021 - Elsevier
The effects of pulsed electric field (PEF) treatment and preliminary vacuum drying (VD) on
freezing assisted processes for the potato tissue were studied. The PEF treatment was done …