Smart food drying techniques with AI enhance product quality and efficiency

09-Jan-2025 - Fooddrying is a common process for preserving many types offood, including fruits andmeat; however, drying can alter thefood’s quality and nutritional value. In recent years, researchers have developed precision techniques that use optical sensors and AI to facilitate more efficient drying. A ...

Optical sensor enables 100 percent quality control of ultra-thin barrier layers

30-May-2024 - A new type of sensor makes it possible for the first time to test functional barrier layers on plastic products at production speed. The Film-Inspect testing system was developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in cooperation with plasma system specialist ...

Analyzing isotopes for nitrate in sake for combating beverage fraud in Japan

Researchers analyze oxygen and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in nitrate to authenticate the source of sake

19-Apr-2024 - The demand for sake—a Japanese alcoholic drink—has increased globally. However, the rise in the popularity of sake has thepotential forrelated beverage fraud. To address this issue, researchers from Japan identified a novel method to authenticate the source of and differentiate between ...

Riesling wines: Human odorant receptor for characteristic petrol note identified for the first time

18-Apr-2024 - Climate change does not stop at grapevines. Too much sun means that the bouquet of German Riesling wines becomes dominated by a petrol note (some) customers do not appreciate. A research team from the Leibniz Institute forFoodSystems Biology at the Technical University of Munich has now ...

What four decades of canned salmon reveal about marine food webs

09-Apr-2024 - Alaskan waters are a critical fishery for salmon. Complex marinefoodwebs underlie and sustain this fishery, and scientists want to know how climate change is reshaping them. But finding samples from the past isn’t easy. “We have to really open our minds and get creative about what can act as an ...

Fish and seafood - improved trace detection of life-threatening allergy sources

"AQUALLERG-ID": Researchers develop methods for detecting potential food allergens

01-Nov-2023 - It is estimated that 1 to 2.5 percent of the adult population suffers from an allergy to fish and seafood, which is one of the most common triggers of life-threatening reactions (13 to 29 percent). These individuals are also more likely to allergic reactions when consuming insects. This is due to ...

Hydrogen technology to curtail greenhouse gases from food, beverage industry

20-Jul-2023 - Engineers and scientists atWest Virginia Universityare developing an advanced hydrogen flexible boiler to help decarbonize the food and beverage industry and eventually eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. The technology, proposed byHailin Li,professor in theDepartment of Mechanical and ...

LED freshness detection for fruit

Perovskite-modified LEDs indicate food spoilage

14-Jul-2023 - A research team has produced light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit light in two wavelength ranges simultaneously and can be used for simplified fruit freshness monitoring. As the researchers write in the journal Angewandte Chemie, modification with perovskite materials caused the LEDs to also ...

Odorant Analysis 2.0

Technique for the isolation of volatile food compounds optimized

01-Aug-2022 - A research team from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (LSB) has succeeded in automating an established method for the gentle, artifact-avoiding isolation of volatile food ingredients. As the team's current comparative study now shows, automated ...

Contemporary and future advances in food science domain

Capillary electrophoresis in food analysis - part 2

01-Jul-2022 - The reference “Current and Future Developments in Food Science (Volume 2)“ describes recent advances and applications of capillary electrophoresis in the field of food science. The first two chapters are devoted to the fundamentals of capillary electrophoresis, and to the main sample preparation ...