Emerging Physical Decontamination Technologies for Food Granules
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Analytical Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2025 | Viewed by 16
Special Issue Editors
Interests: grain processing; functional polysaccharides; intestinal health; new product development; quality control
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: diet; food nutrition; food analysis; powder technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A wide variety of food granules (e.g., cereal grains, flour, dried milk, dry additives, dry ingredients, powder products ground from dried vegetables, fruits, herbs, and spices) are used for food production process or direct consumption. However, contamination by bacteria and fungi due to cultivation, harvesting, processing, handling, and storage is a most pressing issue. Spoilage organisms seriously reduce the shelf life of products, and food-borne pathogens and mycotoxins pose a significant threat to human health. Presently, various physical treatments have been used to prevent microbial contamination, but these techniques have limited applications as steaming and boiling water have disadvantages in terms of the composition, aroma, flavour, and colour of the finished products. Therefore, an emerging physical decontamination technology that can ensure the safety of the final powdered food product while resulting in minimal alterations in techno-functionality and nutritional quality is in great demand.
This Special Issue covers emerging physical processes and their impact on microbial load, food properties, and composition, pertaining to any change in the nutritional properties, flavour and sensory aspects, and structure and functionality of biomolecules. We welcome both original research and review articles and potential topics may include the preparation and characterization of food dry granules, the effects of internal and external factors on microbial inactivation behaviour, and their contribution to quality and nutrition.
Dr. Litao Tong
Dr. Hong Zhu
Dr. Yue Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pulsed light treatment
- ionizing radiation treatment
- cold plasma treatment
- ultraviolet C light treatment
- infrared heating
- microwave heating
- radiofrequency heating
- controlled atmosphere
- microbial inactivation
- nutritional properties
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