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Sensitive ingredients of food, pharmaceutical products, or bioproducts can be damaged due to inappropriate processing conditions. The knowledge of the kinetics of degradation reactions allows optimizing production processes with regard to the nutritional quality. The essential amino acid lysine is an important nutrient in dairy powders that can be blocked, e.g., due to the Maillard reaction during drying processes. In this study, we showed that lysine loss can be modeled with pseudo-second-order reaction kinetics. The reaction rate constants increased with increasing temperature. At 90 °C, the highest reaction rate constant was found at a water activity of 0.23. This maximum was shifted to higher water activities for lower temperatures. The temperature dependence of the reaction rate constants could be modeled by the Williams–Landel–Ferry equation in the vicinity of the glass transition temperature and in the rubbery state. The glass transition temperature was calculated with the Gordon and Taylor equation. At higher temperatures and water contents, Arrhenius-type behavior was determined. The activation energy E A and the pre-exponential factor \( k_0^{*} \) of the Arrhenius equation were expressed as a function of the water content. Thus, it is possible to model lysine loss under conditions that are typical of the production of dairy powders as a function of the temperature, water content, and physical state. The established pseudo-second-order reaction kinetics model can be used to minimize lysine loss during the production of milk powder and to ensure a high nutritional quality.
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Schmitz-Schug, I., Kulozik, U. & Foerst, P. Reaction Kinetics of Lysine Loss in a Model Dairy Formulation as Related to the Physical State. Food Bioprocess Technol 7, 877–886 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11947-013-1119-3
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