Parboiled rice: Understanding from a materials science approach

P Oli, R Ward, B Adhikari, P Torley - Journal of Food Engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
The material properties like glass transition temperature, diffusion, microstructures of rice
kernels and gelatinisation and retrogradation of the rice starch are reviewed to understand …

A comprehensive review of mathematical modeling of paddy parboiling and drying: Effects of modern techniques on process kinetics and rice quality

G Behera, PP Sutar - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Paddy is one of the most important food crops in the world. The major
operations of paddy processing are soaking, parboiling/steaming, drying and milling. The …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of water absorption of bean and chickpea during soaking using Peleg model

SM Shafaei, AA Masoumi, H Roshan - Journal of the Saudi society of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Peleg model was used to determine the instance moisture content of three varieties of bean
(Talash, Sadri and Mahali Khomein) and three varieties of chickpea (Desi, small Kabuli and …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound assisted hydration of navy beans (Phaseolus vulgaris)

M Ghafoor, NN Misra, K Mahadevan… - Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
The use of ultrasound to enhance the transport phenomena in food processes has been well
recognised in recent times. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of …

Modeling of wheat soaking using two artificial neural networks (MLP and RBF)

M Kashaninejad, AA Dehghani, M Kashiri - Journal of food engineering, 2009 - Elsevier
In this study soaking characteristics of wheat kernel was studied at different temperatures
(25, 35, 45, 55 and 65° C) by measuring an increase in the mass of wheat kernels with …

Fitting Fick's model to analyze water diffusion into chickpeas during soaking with ultrasound treatment

A Yildirim, MD Öner, M Bayram - Journal of Food Engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
Fick's model together with Arrhenius relationship were successfully used to evaluate water
absorption of chickpea during soaking at a temperature range of 20–97° C with 25kHz …

Effect of high pressure soaking on water absorption, gelatinization, and biochemical properties of germinated and non-germinated foxtail millet grains

N Sharma, SK Goyal, T Alam, S Fatma… - Journal of Cereal …, 2018 - Elsevier
Foxtail millet is one of the few crops that can thrive under relatively few agricultural inputs
and have valuable amount of nutritional components. Therefore, processing of foxtail millet …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial neural network (ANNs) and mathematical modelling of hydration of green chickpea

Y Kumar, L Singh, VS Sharanagat, A Tarafdar - Information Processing in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study was aimed to model the hydration characteristics of green chickpea (GC)
using mathematical modelling and examine predictive ability of artificial neural network …

Effect of temperature on hydration kinetics of sesame seeds (Sesamum indicum L.)

J Khazaei, N Mohammadi - Journal of Food Engineering, 2009 - Elsevier
Hydration kinetics of sesame seeds (SS) in plain water was determined at temperatures of
27–60° C. A new model was proposed to describe the hydration kinetics of SS. A novel …

Impact of storage technologies and duration on insect pest population, post‐harvest losses, and seed quality of stored chickpea in Ethiopia

M Berhe, B Subramanyam, G Demissie… - Pest Management …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is the most important winter season food legume in Ethiopia.
Despite being a major producer and consumer of chickpeas, Ethiopia experiences lower …