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PEF is an innovative technology to extend the shelf life of fresh liquid food products, mainly juices, with minor impact on the quality. Many lab scale studies have been published, indicating the great potential of PEF for the juice industry. For industrial realization, the PEF systems have been adapted to the industrial requirements, establishing HACCP and hygienic design concept. Important process parameters have been identified from research and integrated in industrial PEF processes. Juice producers are now able to use PEF for their production lines.
Pulsed electric field (PEF) treatment consists of exposing food to electrical fields between electrodes within a treatment chamber, which can improve the preservation of fresh-like products such as milk. Although several studies support the use of PEF technology to process milk at low temperature, these studies reported microbial reductions of around 3 log10 cycles and also indicated a limited impact of PEF on some endogenous and microbial enzymes. This scenario indicates that increasing the impact of PEF on both enzymes and microorganisms remains a major challenge for this technology in milk processing. More recently, combining PEF with mild heating (below pasteurization condition) has been explored as an alternative processing technology to enhance the safety and to preserve the quality of fresh milk and milk products. Mild heating with PEF enhanced the safety of milk and derived products (3 log10–6 log10 cycles reduction on microbial load and drastic impact on the activity enzymes related to quality decay). Moreover, with this approach, there was minimal impact on enzymes of technological and safety relevance, proteins, milk fat globules, and nutrients (particularly for vitamins) and improvements in the shelf-life of milk and selected derived products were obtained. Finally, further experiments should consider the use of milk processed by PEF with mild heating on cheese-making. The combined approach of PEF with mild heating to process milk and derived products is very promising. The characteristics of current PEF systems (which is being used at an industrial level in several countries) and their use in the liquid food industry, particularly for milk and some milk products, could advance towards this strategy.
Valuable Compounds in Algae
(2019)
In recent decades, the interest in algae species as a source of nutritive and valuable compounds has increased. This results from rising population growth, with serious effects in terms of land and water consumption, as well as greenhouse gases. Usually, extraction applications are focused on specific components, such as oil or pigments; however, conscious biorefinery of a broader spectrum of microalgal constituents would enable an increased economy. However, the technology for the production of microalgae is still within its early stages. The cultivation and downstreaming processes are highly energy- and cost-intensive, so the use of algae is limited to the production of high-value and low-volume products. Therefore, progression of environmentally friendly technologies is needed to realize an eco-friendly and economical usage of microalgae as a sustainable resource of the future. This chapter presents general overview of microalgae; moreover, origin and location of valuable compounds are discussed. Additionally, different conventional and novel (thermal and nonthermal) extraction techniques are reviewed.
The impact of Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) on the peeling ability of different fruits and vegetables in particular tomatoes, peaches, peppers, and oranges were investigated. Samples were exposed to a fixed electric field strength of 2.15 kV/cm. The specific energy ranged from 0.6 kJ/kg to 50.3 kJ/kg. The treated raw materials were analysed regarding to the peeling ability, skin size and weight and firmness. The best result for tomatoes at a specific energy of 1.2 kJ/kg induced a high score of peeling ability that led to less product loss and could therefore increase the yield by 33.84%–41.53% compared to untreated samples. Moreover, an increased skin size by a factor of 3.7 was observed. However, PEF had no significant impact on peeling ability of oranges, peppers, and peaches. Although oranges showed an improvement in peeling ability by up to 32%, this cannot be traced back to the PEF treatment. The different properties and structures of the raw materials were discussed and provided indications about the limitation of PEF.