Yun-Fang Qian, Cheng-Jian Shi, Run-Jian Gao, Lu Sun, Sheng-Ping Yang
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Abstract
To address the issue that the exudate from fish accelerates the spoilage process, a sustained-release absorbent pad (BC-F/AP) was developed. This pad consisted of a chitosan/sodium alginate (CS/SA) sheet containing a basil essential oil inclusion complex (BEO-IC) combined with an absorbent pad (AP). The effects of BC-F/AP on quality maintenance and myofibrillar protein (MP) stability in large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) were investigated in comparison with the control (CK), commercial pad (AP), pure BEO, and BEO-IC. The findings showed that the BC-F/AP group suppressed the proliferation of psychrophilic bacteria in fish fillets and minimized cooking loss. On day 10, the microbial count of BC-F/AP group (9.45 log CFU/g) was lower than the CK group (10.47 log CFU/g), and the cooking loss was reduced by 3.08%. At the same time, it significantly suppressed protein deterioration: TCA-soluble peptide content decreased by 1.39 µmol tyrosine/g, MFI by 46.82, surface hydrophobicity by 7.33 µg BPB/mg protein, and turbidity by 0.59. In vitro experiments by incubating exudate with MPs confirmed that the exudate accelerated the degradation and oxidation of MPs in decreasing protein content and intrinsic fluorescence intensity, and increasing surface hydrophobicity and particle size. In conclusion, the BC-F/AP group maintained the quality of the large yellow croaker and the integrity of MPs by absorbing exudate and sustained-releasing antibacterial and antioxidant activity.
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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.