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[Water content and water activity in food]
1992
Dufour, D. (Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement, Montpellier (France). SAR, Systemes Agro-Alimentaires et Ruraux)
Water and food quality
1989
Hardman, T.M. (ed.)
[Water activity and food stability]
1992
Dufour, D. (Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement, Montpellier (France). SAR, Systemes Agro-Alimentaires et Ruraux)
Water activity measuring instrument for food products
1995
Kittichai Banchong | Sakun Bun-it | Suppharoek Adunprasoetsuk (King Mongkut's Inst. of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Agricultural Technology. Dept. of Agro-Industry)
[Food additive and water activity depression agents]
1992
Guilbert, S. (Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement, Montpellier (France). SAR. Systemes Agroalimentaires et Ruraux)
The role of water in food quality decay
2006
Piazza, L.
The impact of water on food thermodynamics and physics and, therefore, on its quality is more important than the one of any other food chemical component. When fundamentals of chemical kinetics are applied, the rates of the reactions responsible of food quality decay can be described as a function of food composition and of other external elements interacting with foods. Among them, water activity and water content have been widely used to determine the role of water in the kinetic reactions of deterioration. Recently, researchers have found limitations in using the water activity parameter. According to them, the role of water in foods can be better described by evaluating the role, in stability of the quality attributes, of the non-equilibrium states of amorphous food products. Following this approach, the dynamics of changes are described in kinetics terms and can be more efficiently predicted by the glass transition temperature more than by the water activity. The glass transition, which is a second order transition in amorphous materials from the glassy to the rubbery state, is primarily dependent on water, which is a plasticizer and is responsible for the physical state of multiphase systems (as foods are) together with temperature. The subject of the role of water in the decay of food quality is presented in this paper, according to the principles of food material science | L'impatto dell'acqua sulla termodinamica e sulla fisica dell'alimento e, quindi, sulla sua qualità è maggiore di quello di ogni altro componente chimico. Applicando principi fondamentali di cinetica chimica, le velocità delle reazioni responsabili del decadimento della qualità possono essere espresse in funzione della composizione e di fattori esterni al prodotto. L'attività dell'acqua o il contenuto in umidità sono stati ampiamente utilizzati per determinare il ruolo dell'acqua nelle reazioni cinetiche di degradazione. Scuole più recenti attribuiscono al concetto di attività dell'acqua alcune limitazioni: il ruolo dell'acqua negli alimenti è discusso in relazione allo stato di non-equilibrio dei prodotti alimentari amorfi nella stabilità degli attributi di qualità. Secondo questo approccio la dinamica dei cambiamenti è descritta in termini cinetici e può essere efficacemente predetta dalla temperatura di transizione vetrosa, più che dall'attività dell'acqua. La transizione vetrosa, transizione di secondo ordine da uno stato vetroso allo stato gommoso dei materiali amorfi, è innanzitutto influenzata dall'acqua quale plasticizzante del sistema, che, quindi, insieme alla temperatura, determina lo stato fisico delle fasi di sistemi multifase quali sono gli alimenti. Il tema del ruolo dell'acqua nel decadimento della qualità degli alimenti viene presentato in questo lavoro secondo i principi della scienza dei materiali alimentari
Показать больше [+] Меньше [-]Water activity changes of multicomponent food mixture during processing Полный текст
Stencl, J.(Mendelova Zemedelska a Lesnicka Univ., Brno (Czech Republic). Ustav Zemedelske, Potravinarske a Environmentalni Techniky) | Komprda, T.(Mendelova Zemedelska a Lesnicka Univ., Brno (Czech Republic). Ustav Technologie Potravin)
The objective of this study was to determine the changes in water activity and moisture content in the dry fermented sausages Herkules, a typical multicomponent food, during ripening and storage. The sausages were made with lean beef, lean pork, pork fat, nitrite salt mixture, and sugars, and fermented with two starter cultures (Pediococcus pentosaceus + Staphylococcus carnosus and S. carnosus + S. xylosus + Lactobacillus farciminis). The samples were taken and tested during ripening (21 days) and storage (91 days). The water activity was measured by indirect manometric method in a static environment, the moisture content by halogen dryer. The water activity and moisture content decreased considerably, but very irregularily during the ripening, whereas they declined only slowly and linearly during the storage. The decrease during the storage was expressed by mathematical equations describing the changes of water activity and moisture content in function of the time. The use of different starter cultures had no influence on the two variables studied.
Показать больше [+] Меньше [-]Ethanol vapour pressure and water activity relations in food model systems
1997
Lerici, C.R. | Nicoli, M.C. | Manzocco, L. | Mastrocola, D. (Udine Univ. (Italy))
[The water activity (aw-value) and its importance in food industry]
1991
Fiedler, B.