Beet production data

In the book The Safe Use of Pesticides While Intensifying Agricultural Production [21], the paragraphs on polychlorpinen in beet fields were lost among data linked to OCP contamination of breast milk in Japan, the USA, and Sweden the dangers to the inhabitants of Italy from herbicide contamination of the Po river the poisoning of the inhabitants of the USA and Canada by watermelon from a plantation treated with pesticides and many other facts. Here is the text on the beet fields ... 

Huang and Bourne (16) studied the rate of softening of green beans, dry white beans, carrots and three varieties of beets for times up to 120 minutes using the extrusion principle to measure firmness and found a similar pattern in the softening curves for every product. Figure 1 plots log extrusion force versus process time for diced beets processed at 220F. The solid circles and solid line show the experimental data. 

Table 6. Apparent viscosity and Ostwald model-parameters calculated after fitting the flow experimental data (25 C) for 2.00 % (w/v)-aqueous systems containing different red beet pectin enriched products.

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