title: Kinetics of quality changes during food frying.
abstract: This paper deals with kinetics of quality changes during food frying. The quality parameters of interests include color, texture, viscoelastic properties, volume/density, and nutraceuticals (Omega 3 fatty acids). The kinetic theory and determination methodology under isothermal/non-isothermal conditions are also reviewed. This paper presents the reported reaction rate constant, order of reaction, and activation energy for specific quality changes including phenomenological observations and important speculations. The changes of color, textural, and viscoelastic properties generally followed a first order reaction. In some studies, activation energy analysis could have been improved by applying corresponding system temperatures for the quality change reactions of interest. The kinetic information on volume/density changes and thermal degradation of nutraceutical is still limited to experimental observations of the changes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, S7N 5A9, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
authors.forename: Fransiskus
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hindra
authors.forename: Oon-Doo
authors.initials: OD
authors.lastname: Baik
mesh_terms: D001939:Bread; D003116:Color; D002523:Edible Grain; D004548:Elasticity; D015525:Fatty Acids, Omega-3; D005502:Food; D005524:Food Technology; D006358:Hot Temperature; D007700:Kinetics; D002365:Manihot; D008460:Meat; D035281:Plant Tubers / Q000737:chemistry; D011198:Solanum tuberosum / Q000737:chemistry; D013816:Thermodynamics; D014783:Viscosity
chemical_list: D015525:Fatty Acids, Omega-3