Effects of Oscillating Magnetic Fields of Different Level of Intensity Magnitudes on Supercooling of Cherries

IF 2.8 4区农林科学 Q2 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Food Biophysics Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI:10.1007/s11483-024-09914-x

Mingxuan Huang, Fanchen Kong, Changqing Tian, Dongmei Leng, Huiming Zou, Mingsheng Tang

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Abstract

Supercooling has numerous applications in the bio-preservation and food cold chain. This study investigated the effects of oscillating magnetic fields at different intensity levels on the preservation of cherries during supercooling. The magnetic field frequency was 50 Hz, and by applying the magnetic field of 0.1 mT level and mT level intensity, the experiment demonstrated that the magnetic field of mT level could better maintain the degree of supercooling of cherries, and realized 24 h supercooling storage at − 4 ℃. The supercooled samples exhibited food quality comparable to that of the fresh samples, with weight loss in the supercooled samples reduced by 73.2% in comparison to the control group. The mechanism of the effect of different level of magnetic energy density on cherry supercooling is explored from the macroscopic point of view of thermodynamic and the microscopic point of view of hydrogen bonding of water molecules. The oscillating magnetic field makes the Gibbs free energy of water molecules as a whole rise, which leads to a larger energy barrier required for crystallization. In addition, the magnetic field inhibits crystallization by weakening the hydrogen bonding within the water molecule clusters so that the water molecule cluster size does not reach the critical radius. To a certain extent the higher the magnetic energy density, about less prone to freezing under the same supercooling conditions, providing a reference for the future determination of the lowest magnetic energy density for different fruits, and helping to reduce the energy consumption of this technology.

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Food Biophysics 工程技术-食品科技

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5.80

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3.30%

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1 months

期刊介绍： Biophysical studies of foods and agricultural products involve research at the interface of chemistry, biology, and engineering, as well as the new interdisciplinary areas of materials science and nanotechnology. Such studies include but are certainly not limited to research in the following areas: the structure of food molecules, biopolymers, and biomaterials on the molecular, microscopic, and mesoscopic scales; the molecular basis of structure generation and maintenance in specific foods, feeds, food processing operations, and agricultural products; the mechanisms of microbial growth, death and antimicrobial action; structure/function relationships in food and agricultural biopolymers; novel biophysical techniques (spectroscopic, microscopic, thermal, rheological, etc.) for structural and dynamical characterization of food and agricultural materials and products; the properties of amorphous biomaterials and their influence on chemical reaction rate, microbial growth, or sensory properties; and molecular mechanisms of taste and smell. A hallmark of such research is a dependence on various methods of instrumental analysis that provide information on the molecular level, on various physical and chemical theories used to understand the interrelations among biological molecules, and an attempt to relate macroscopic chemical and physical properties and biological functions to the molecular structure and microscopic organization of the biological material.