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  • 1Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA; Department of Food Science & Bioengineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, 18 Xuezheng Street, Zhejiang, Hangzhou 310018, China.

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
|July 30, 2020
PubMed

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