Recent developments in high-quality drying of vegetables, fruits, and aquatic products

M Zhang, H Chen, AS Mujumdar, J Tang… - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Fresh foods like vegetables, fruits, and aquatic products have high water activity and they
are highly heat-sensitive and easily degradable. Dehydration is one of the most common …

Recent developments in frying technologies applied to fresh foods

X Zhang, M Zhang, B Adhikari - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Deep-fat frying is one of the most popular food processing methods worldwide.
It involves simultaneous transfer of heat and mass at high temperature. Typical fried …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound treatment to modified atmospheric packaged fresh-cut cucumber: Influence on microbial inhibition and storage quality

K Fan, M Zhang, F Jiang - Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Influence of ultrasound treatment on microorganisms and the quality of modified
atmospheric packaged fresh-cut cucumber during storage were investigated. Fresh-cut …

Intelligent detection of flavor changes in ginger during microwave vacuum drying based on LF-NMR

Y Sun, M Zhang, B Bhandari, P Yang - Food Research International, 2019 - Elsevier
Low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (LF-NMR) and electronic nose combined with Gas
chromatography mass spectrometry (GC–MS) were used to collect the data of moisture state …

Recent developments in high efficient freeze-drying of fruits and vegetables assisted by microwave: A review

K Fan, M Zhang, AS Mujumdar - Critical reviews in food science …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Microwave heating has been applied in the drying of high-value solids as it affords a number
of advantages, including shorter drying time and better product quality. Freeze-drying at …

Novel concepts in microwave drying of foods

D Wray, HS Ramaswamy - Drying Technology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Drying is a widespread concept in the food industry, typically employed to convert a surplus
crop into a shelf-stable commodity. With advancement of technology, however, there is …

Microwave vacuum drying of dragon fruit slice: Artificial neural network modelling, genetic algorithm optimization, and kinetics study

GVSB Raj, KK Dash - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2020 - Elsevier
Microwave vacuum drying of dragon fruit (Hylocereus undatus) slice was investigated in this
study and the drying process was modelled with the help of feed-forward back-propagation …

Drying of shiitake mushroom by combining freeze-drying and mid-infrared radiation

H Wang, M Zhang, B Adhikari - Food and Bioproducts Processing, 2015 - Elsevier
Mid-infrared drying (MIRD) was applied before or after freeze-drying (FD) of shiitake
mushroom to shorten the drying time, to enhance the rehydration, and to better preserve the …

Online low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (LF-NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for food quality optimization in food processing

MC Ezeanaka, J Nsor-Atindana, M Zhang - Food and Bioprocess …, 2019 - Springer
Low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (LF-NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
have been accepted widely as a non-destructive analytical technique in food processing …

A novel combination of LF-NMR and NIR to intelligent control in pulse-spouted microwave freeze drying of blueberry

W Liu, M Zhang, B Bhandari, D Yu - Lwt, 2021 - Elsevier
In order to improve the drying efficiency while maintaining product quality, pulse-spouted
microwave freeze-drying (PS-MFD) was applied to the dehydration process of blueberries …