ABSTRACT

The level of quality that food maintains as it travels down the production-to-consumption path is largely determined by the chemical, biochemical, physical, and microbiological changes that take place during its processing and storage. Authored by an internationally respected food quality expert, Kinetic Modeling of Reactions in Foods demonstrates

chapter 1|8 pages

Kinetic View on Food Quality

part |2 pages

Section I: The Basics

chapter 2|12 pages

Models and Modeling

chapter 3|60 pages

Chemical Thermodynamics in a Nutshell

chapter 4|64 pages

Chemical Reaction Kinetics

chapter 5|44 pages

Temperature and Pressure Effects

chapter 6|48 pages

Charge Effects

chapter 7|100 pages

Kinetics and Statistics

part |2 pages

Section II: Application of the Basics to Chemical, Biochemical, Physical, and Microbial Changes in the Food Matrix

chapter 9|62 pages

Enzyme Kinetics

chapter 10|40 pages

Kinetics of Protein and Enzyme Denaturation

chapter 11|62 pages

Kinetics of Physical Changes

chapter 12|44 pages

Kinetics of Microbial Growth

chapter 13|44 pages

Kinetics of Inactivation of Microorganisms

chapter 14|56 pages

Modeling the Food Matrix

chapter 15|24 pages

Retrospective and Outlook

chapter |4 pages

Appendix A: Some Calculus Rules

part |2 pages

Appendix B: Ways to Express Amounts of Reactants and Products

chapter |8 pages

List of Symbols and Units*