{"title":"Distance-driven precision in total dosage during liquid food treatment by pulsed light: enhancing estimation by temperature and color corrections","authors":"Christelle Pihen, J. Horacio Espinoza-Rodríguez, Omar Jair Purata-Sifuentes, Aurelio López-Malo, Nelly Ramírez-Corona","doi":"10.1007/s11694-024-02990-0","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Pulsed light (PL) treatment is considered an emerging method for processing liquid foods. Efficient liquid food treatment design requires determining fluence to estimate microorganisms’ inactivation kinetics and develop effective treatment protocols. Despite available tools to determine PL equipment fluence, these are often costly and overlook the inherent photothermal mechanism. This research aims to analyze doses irradiated by PL equipment at 5.74 cm and 10.82 cm from the luminesce source, estimating the dose distribution across a simplified petri-dish-based sample holder, and validating results through <i>Escherichia coli</i> ATCC 25922 inactivation in guava nectar and pineapple juice. Results showed that correcting emitted doses for distance and absorbance yielded suitable adjustments, but including the temperature and color change factors strongest aligned the theoretical estimations with actual doses. This underscores a more pronounced correlation between the calculated dose and the inactivation of <i>E. coli</i> in guava nectar and pineapple juice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":631,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization","volume":"19 1","pages":"565 - 580"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11694-024-02990-0","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Pulsed light (PL) treatment is considered an emerging method for processing liquid foods. Efficient liquid food treatment design requires determining fluence to estimate microorganisms’ inactivation kinetics and develop effective treatment protocols. Despite available tools to determine PL equipment fluence, these are often costly and overlook the inherent photothermal mechanism. This research aims to analyze doses irradiated by PL equipment at 5.74 cm and 10.82 cm from the luminesce source, estimating the dose distribution across a simplified petri-dish-based sample holder, and validating results through Escherichia coli ATCC 25922 inactivation in guava nectar and pineapple juice. Results showed that correcting emitted doses for distance and absorbance yielded suitable adjustments, but including the temperature and color change factors strongest aligned the theoretical estimations with actual doses. This underscores a more pronounced correlation between the calculated dose and the inactivation of E. coli in guava nectar and pineapple juice.
期刊介绍:
This interdisciplinary journal publishes new measurement results, characteristic properties, differentiating patterns, measurement methods and procedures for such purposes as food process innovation, product development, quality control, and safety assurance.
The journal encompasses all topics related to food property measurement and characterization, including all types of measured properties of food and food materials, features and patterns, measurement principles and techniques, development and evaluation of technologies, novel uses and applications, and industrial implementation of systems and procedures.