Landmarks in the historical development of twenty first century food processing technologies

MISRA N. N., Koubaa M., ROOHINEJAD S., JULIANO P., ALPAS H., Inacio R. S., ...More

FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL, vol.97, pp.318-339, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Review
  • Volume: 97
  • Publication Date: 2017
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.foodres.2017.05.001
  • Journal Name: FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.318-339
  • Keywords: Emerging food technologies, Conventional food process, Thermal processing, Non-thermal processing, Historical review, HIGH-HYDROSTATIC-PRESSURE, PULSED ELECTRIC-FIELD, ASSISTED MECHANICAL EXPRESSION, SUPERCRITICAL-FLUID EXTRACTION, BARRIER DISCHARGE PLASMA, SHELF-LIFE EXTENSION, FAT GLOBULE SIZE, ATMOSPHERIC-PRESSURE, HYPERBARIC STORAGE, CAVITATION EXTRACTION
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Over a course of centuries, various food processing technologies have been explored and implemented to provide safe, fresher-tasting and nutritive food products. Among these technologies, application of emerging food processes (e.g., cold plasma, pressurized fluids, pulsed electric fields, ohmic heating, radiofrequency electric fields, ultrasonics and megasonics, high hydrostatic pressure, high pressure homogenization, hyperbaric storage, and negative pressure cavitation extraction) have attracted much attention in the past decades. This is because, compared to their conventional counterparts, novel food processes allow a significant reduction in the overall processing times with savings in energy consumption, while ensuring food safety, and ample benefits for the industry. Noteworthily, industry and university teams have made extensive efforts for the development of novel technologies, with sound scientific knowledge of their effects on different food materials. The main objective of this review is to provide a historical account of the extensive efforts and inventions in the field of emerging food processing technologies since their inception to present day.