Assessment of changes in vitamin content and morphological characteristics in strawberries modified with a pulsed electric field using chromatography and optical coherence tomography

IF 4.1 Q2 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

NFS Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI:10.1016/j.nfs.2025.100217

Ewa Korzeniewska , Ilona Gałązka-Czarnecka , Joanna Sekulska-Nalewajko , Jarosław Gocławski , Tomasz Dróźdż , Paweł Kiełbasa

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Abstract

Vitamins B and C are crucial for maintaining human health, so it is important to develop effective methods to support their extraction from products of plant origin. The research conducted by the authors focused on modifying the content of these vitamins in dessert strawberries using a pulsed electric field (PEF) with an intensity of 1, 3 or 5 kV/cm. Experiments have shown that PEF treatment with an intensity of 1 kV/cm and 10 pulses for 10 s resulted in a significant improvement in vitamin content and extraction efficiency of vitamin C by 22 %, folic acid by 24 %, thiamine by more than 50 % and riboflavin by more than 60 %.

Optical coherence tomography imaging revealed texture changes in fruit pulp under the influence of PEF, related to the release of additional vitamins detected by chromatography methods.

Additionally, PEF treatment offers significant benefits in fruit processing, including improved dehydration characteristics, reduced time and energy required for freeze-drying, increased extraction efficiency, and potential improvements in bioactive compound content and antioxidant properties.

The research results may have practical applications in the analytical determination of vitamins C and B by improving the extraction efficiency. Moreover, the use of the PEF method can be important for producers of fruit products (including strawberries), as it enables them to improve the nutritional value of their products.

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NFS Journal Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Food Science

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期刊介绍： The NFS Journal publishes high-quality original research articles and methods papers presenting cutting-edge scientific advances as well as review articles on current topics in all areas of nutrition and food science. The journal particularly invites submission of articles that deal with subjects on the interface of nutrition and food research and thus connect both disciplines. The journal offers a new form of submission Registered Reports (see below). NFS Journal is a forum for research in the following areas: • Understanding the role of dietary factors (macronutrients and micronutrients, phytochemicals, bioactive lipids and peptides etc.) in disease prevention and maintenance of optimum health • Prevention of diet- and age-related pathologies by nutritional approaches • Advances in food technology and food formulation (e.g. novel strategies to reduce salt, sugar, or trans-fat contents etc.) • Nutrition and food genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics • Identification and characterization of food components • Dietary sources and intake of nutrients and bioactive compounds • Food authentication and quality • Nanotechnology in nutritional and food sciences • (Bio-) Functional properties of foods • Development and validation of novel analytical and research methods • Age- and gender-differences in biological activities and the bioavailability of vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals and other dietary factors • Food safety and toxicology • Food and nutrition security • Sustainability of food production