TY - JOUR
T1 - Vortex fluidic mediated food processing
AU - He, Shan
AU - Joseph, Nikita
AU - Luo, Xuan
AU - Raston, Colin L.
N1 - Copyright: ©2019 He et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2019/5/30
Y1 - 2019/5/30
N2 - The high heat and mass transfer, and controlled mechanoenergy, in angled vortex fluidics has been applied in chemical and material sciences and allied fields, but its utility in food processing remains largely unexplored. Herein we report three models of food processing incorporating such vortex fluidics, including enzymatic hydrolysis, raw milk pasteurization and encapsulation. The processing times of enzymatic hydrolysis was reduced from about 2–3 hours to 20 minutes, with the processing time of raw milk pasteurization reduced from 30 to 10 minutes, and an encapsulated particle size reduced approximately 10-fold, from micro meters to hundreds of nanometers. These findings highlight exciting possibilities, in exploiting the value of vortex fluidic mediated processing in the food industry.
AB - The high heat and mass transfer, and controlled mechanoenergy, in angled vortex fluidics has been applied in chemical and material sciences and allied fields, but its utility in food processing remains largely unexplored. Herein we report three models of food processing incorporating such vortex fluidics, including enzymatic hydrolysis, raw milk pasteurization and encapsulation. The processing times of enzymatic hydrolysis was reduced from about 2–3 hours to 20 minutes, with the processing time of raw milk pasteurization reduced from 30 to 10 minutes, and an encapsulated particle size reduced approximately 10-fold, from micro meters to hundreds of nanometers. These findings highlight exciting possibilities, in exploiting the value of vortex fluidic mediated processing in the food industry.
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UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170100453
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0216816
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0216816
M3 - Article
C2 - 31145727
AN - SCOPUS:85066428657
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 14
JO - PLoS One
JF - PLoS One
IS - 5
M1 - e0216816
ER -