Food ChemistryPub Date : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2026-08-21DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150737
Aref Erfani, Mir Khalil Pirouzifard, Sajad Pirsa
{"title":"Retraction notice to \"Photochromic biodegradable film based on polyvinyl alcohol modified with silver chloride nanoparticles and spirulina; investigation of physicochemical, antimicrobial and optical properties\" [Food Chem. 411 (2023) 135459].","authors":"Aref Erfani, Mir Khalil Pirouzifard, Sajad Pirsa","doi":"10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150737","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150737","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":318,"journal":{"name":"Food Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"150737"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148786441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retraction notice to \"Investigating the causes of yolk mudding during storage of salted eggs: Water migration accelerates protein and lipid oxidation\" [Food Chem. 481 (2025) 144112].","authors":"Jiyu Zhang, Songyi Lin, Sichen Lu, Xunze Yuan, Yue Tang, Zhijie Bao","doi":"10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150738","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150738","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":318,"journal":{"name":"Food Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"150738"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148786501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Food ChemistryPub Date : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2026-07-31DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150630
Qing Guo, Min Zhang, Bhesh Bhandari, Qi Yu, Luming Rui
{"title":"Ultrasound/electrostatic field combined with ε-polylysine for improving the quality of ready-to-eat pork jelly and freshness classification based on convolutional neural network.","authors":"Qing Guo, Min Zhang, Bhesh Bhandari, Qi Yu, Luming Rui","doi":"10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150630","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150630","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated the effects of ultrasound (US, 300 W, 20 kHz, 20 min) and electrostatic field (EF, 3.5 kV/cm, 60 min) combined with ε-polylysine (PL, 0.5%, w/w) on the quality of ready-to-eat pork jelly (Shuijingyaorou, SJYR) during 40-day storage at 4 °C. Physicochemical properties such as lipid oxidation, total plate count, texture, flavor, and moisture distribution were evaluated. The results showed that the combined treatment (US + EF + ε-polylysine) exhibited the strongest preservation effect for SJYR, significantly inhibiting lipid oxidation, protein degradation, pH increase, and microbial growth, meanwhile maintaining texture and flavor of SJYR, resulting in the shelf-life extended approximately 10 days compared with the blank control group. Furthermore, four convolutional neural network (CNN) models including Xception, ResNet-50, MobileNet, and GhostNet were developed for SJYR freshness classification. Xception model achieved the highest test accuracy (83.05% mean precision), while GhostNet model showed promising accuracy (77.48%) with lower computational cost, making it suitable for mobile applications. This study provides a feasible strategy for improving SJYR shelf-life and rapid freshness identification.</p>","PeriodicalId":318,"journal":{"name":"Food Chemistry","volume":"525 Pt 3","pages":"150630"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148700339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Food ChemistryPub Date : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2026-08-31DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150767
Gesiane da S Lima, Lanaia I L Maciel, Tamara Lenz, Hugo G Machado, Nerilson M Lima, Jorge L S Simão, Vanessa G P Severino, Michael Rychlik, Boniek Gontijo, Stefan A Pieczonka, Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin
{"title":"Corrigendum to \"Metabolomic profile of edible Amazonian Arecaceae fruits by FT-ICR-MS: Insights into chemical, nutritional and antioxidant profiles\" [Food Chem. 525 (2026) 150319].","authors":"Gesiane da S Lima, Lanaia I L Maciel, Tamara Lenz, Hugo G Machado, Nerilson M Lima, Jorge L S Simão, Vanessa G P Severino, Michael Rychlik, Boniek Gontijo, Stefan A Pieczonka, Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin","doi":"10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150767","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":318,"journal":{"name":"Food Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"150767"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148862875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Food ChemistryPub Date : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2026-07-31DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150642
Ishita Ghosh, Federico Harte, Yi Zhang
{"title":"A plant protein-based fat texturizer: Enzymatic bioproduction and application in non-fat yogurt.","authors":"Ishita Ghosh, Federico Harte, Yi Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150642","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.150642","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The growing demand for low-fat or non-fat food products highlights the need for fat texturizers that replicate the mouthfeel and texture of fat. This study investigates the enzymatic modification of lentil protein isolates (LPI) to generate amphiphilic polypeptides for fat replacement in non-fat foods, exemplified by yogurt. LPI was hydrolyzed using Alcalase at varying enzyme-to-substrate ratios (1:100-1:2000) and hydrolysis times (2-240 min). Enzymatic hydrolysis significantly modified LPI, with partially hydrolyzed proteins (LPP5-10, <50 kDa) exhibiting balanced functional properties, including surface hydrophobicity (207 A.U.) comparable to lecithin (199 A.U.), high solubility across pH 2-12, and substantially higher oil-holding capacity (752%) than native LPI (174%). Adding 0.05% LPP5-10 to non-fat milk enhanced yogurt gelation, storage modulus, and yield stress, achieving textures comparable to whole-milk yogurt. These findings demonstrate that enzymatically produced lentil polypeptides are effective plant-protein fat texturizers for restoring the texture and structure of low-fat food products.</p>","PeriodicalId":318,"journal":{"name":"Food Chemistry","volume":"525 Pt 3","pages":"150642"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148667848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Food ChemistryPub Date : 2026-09-28DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.151294
Yong Ding, Xiangzhan Zhang, Yanan Wang, Suke Wang, Yanli Su, Long Wang, Huabai Xue
{"title":"Exogenous 3-Hydroxy-4-methoxycinnamic acid inhibits browning in fresh-cut pear flesh","authors":"Yong Ding, Xiangzhan Zhang, Yanan Wang, Suke Wang, Yanli Su, Long Wang, Huabai Xue","doi":"10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.151294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.151294","url":null,"abstract":"Fresh-cut pears are highly susceptible to oxidative browning during postharvest storage, which seriously deteriorates fruit quality and nutritional value. Although 3-Hydroxy-4-methoxycinnamic acid (HMCA) is a phenolic metabolite with established antioxidant properties, its inhibitory effects on enzymatic browning remains unexplored compared to conventional antioxidants. In this study, fresh-cut pear slices were treated with exogenous HMCA, and its effects on quality deterioration and browning progression were investigated. Results indicated that HMCA effectively maintained fruit quality, suppressed the increase in browning index, reduced the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and malondialdehyde (MDA), and retarded the degradation of ascorbic acid (AsA). Meanwhile, HMCA enhanced the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT), inhibited the activities of polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and peroxidase (POD), and modulated the expression of genes involved in phenolic metabolism and antioxidant defense. Furthermore, overexpression of <ce:italic>PbrC4H</ce:italic> delayed browning, whereas silencing of this gene accelerated browning. Collectively, these findings demonstrate that HMCA mitigates browning in fresh-cut pears via regulating the phenylpropanoid pathway, thereby providing a theoretical basis for the development of novel natural preservatives for fresh-cut fruits.","PeriodicalId":318,"journal":{"name":"Food Chemistry","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149085820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of the ripening stage on the hot-air drying behavior of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.): Cell wall polysaccharides, ultrastructure, and mechanisms of bioactive and flavor evolution","authors":"Xiao-Xiao Niu, Huan Li, Yu-Ting Ding, Wei-Peng Zhang, Ming-Qiang Xu, Feng-Lun Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Jun Zhang, Jing-Shou Zhang, Hong-Wei Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.151277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.151277","url":null,"abstract":"Industrial tomato drying is strongly influenced by ripening stage. This study evaluated mature green, breaker, and red tomatoes for physicochemical traits, cell-wall polysaccharides, microstructure, drying behavior, bioactives, and volatiles. With ripening, polygalacturonase and pectin methylesterase activities increased, water- and chelator-soluble pectins accumulated, Na₂CO₃-soluble pectin and hemicellulose declined, and SEM/TEM observations showed apparent parenchyma loosening and middle-lamella blurring. Red ripe tomatoes had higher effective moisture diffusivity than mature green fruit (1.62 × 10<ce:sup loc=\"post\">−9</ce:sup> vs 1.30 × 10<ce:sup loc=\"post\">−9</ce:sup> m<ce:sup loc=\"post\">2</ce:sup>/s) and 24.44% shorter drying time. Lycopene increased after ripening and drying, total phenolic equivalents rose with maturity on a dry-matter basis, and ascorbic acid declined after drying. Electronic-nose and HS-SPME-GC–MS analyses indicated maturity-dependent volatile fingerprints, with breaker tomatoes enriched in tentatively annotated aroma-related aldehydes and esters. These findings underscore maturity-based grading as a vital strategy to balance drying efficiency, nutritional quality, and flavor development.","PeriodicalId":318,"journal":{"name":"Food Chemistry","volume":"4 1","pages":"151277"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149085848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}