title: Recent development in 3D food printing.
abstract: Robots and software have been significantly improving our daily lives by rendering us much convenience. And 3D printing is a typical example, for it is going to usher in a new era of localized manufacturing that is actually based on digital fabrication by layer-by-layer deposition in three-dimensional space. In terms of food industry, the revolution that three-dimensional printing technologies is bringing to food manufacturing is convenience of low-cost customized fabrication and even precise nutrition control. This paper is aimed to give a brief introduction of recent development of food printing and material property of food ingredients that can be used to design the 3D food matrix and investigate the relationship between process parameters and resulting printed food properties in order to establish a food manufacturing process with this new food production approach.
authors.affiliation: a State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology , Jiangnan University , Wuxi, Jiangsu , China.
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: a State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology , Jiangnan University , Wuxi, Jiangsu , China.|b School of Food Science and Technology , Jiangnan University , Wuxi, Jiangsu , China.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: c School of Agriculture and Food Sciences , The University of Queensland , St. Lucia , Australia.
authors.forename: Bhesh
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bhandari
mesh_terms: D005524:Food Technology / Q000379:methods*; D066330:Printing, Three-Dimensional; D012984:Software
keywords: 3D printing; food; materials; new developments; phase temperature