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A New Look at Kinetics in Relation to Food Storage
Micha Peleg1, Mark D Normand1, Maria G Corradini1
1Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003;
Abstract:
Modern mathematical software and user-friendly interactive programs can simplify and speed up kinetics calculations. They also open the way for new approaches to storage data gathering and analysis. This is demonstrated with a recently introduced simple exponential model that is interchangeable with the Arrhenius equation and endpoints and successive points methods and that estimates chemical degradation kinetics parameters from a small number of isothermal or nonisothermal experimental data. Also presented are a method to determine shelf life using two chemical markers and a global phenomenological model for peaked reactions, such as those encountered in lipid oxidation. Also recently introduced are freely downloadable Wolfram Demonstrations and other interactive software to generate, visualize, examine, and/or compare actual or hypothetical storage scenarios in minutes. They include programs that solve pairs of simultaneous nonlinear algebraic or differential rate equations by passing two reconstructed degradation curves, or a single nonisothermal curve, through two entered experimental points by moving the degradation parameters' sliders on the screen.
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