Emerging Technologies for Beverages Preservation
A special issue of Beverages (ISSN 2306-5710).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2019) | Viewed by 380
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing demand of almost personalised desires from consumers on beverages stimulates the market to develop at high rate products to supply this demand. There are beverages formulated specifically for athletes, or for elderly people, women, or even for babies. New consumer trends such as veganism demand beverages that can replace cow milk; other trends due to health conditions demand sugar-free, fat-free, or gluten-free formulations. Many of these formulations are low-acid, and therefore, to be safely stocked on the supermarket shelf, they must undergo sterilization; others, mainly fruit juices or nectars, being high-acid beverages may be stabilized by a less aggressive preservation process (pasteurization), but most bevereges still undergo thermal processing. Their nutritional value and functionality is somehow impaired by the preservation process, and emerging technologies such as high hydrostatic pressure, thermosonication, electrical pulsed fields, pulsed light, or active packaging, among others, may play a very important role in preventing this drawback. Many scientific articles have been published already on this subject; however, they are scattered throughout diferent journals.
This Special Issue will gather recent developments in emerging technologies applied to beverages in order to improve their nutritional and functional quality andensure product safety.
Prof. Margarida C. Vieira
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- high hydrostatic pressure
- thermosonication
- electrical pulsed fields
- pulsed light
- active packaging
- thermal processing
- preservation
- extention of shelf life
- safety
- nutritional value
- functional properties
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