Food microstructure

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S.S. Dhillon, J.P. Miksche and R.A. Cecich, Microspectrometric Applications in Plant Science Research. In Bechtel, D.B. (Ed) New Frontiers in Food Microstructure. American Association of Cereal Chemists, St. Paul, MN, (1983). pp27-67... 

IMAGING TECHNIQUES FOR THE STUDY OF FOOD MICROSTRUCTURE A REVIEW... 

The microstructure of bread and other microporous foods can be conveniently studied by applying synchrotron radiation X-ray microtomography (X-MT) (Falcone et al., 2004a Maire et al., 2003) to centimeter- or millimeter-sized samples (Lim and Barigou, 2004). X-MT application only requires the presence of areas of morphological or mass density heterogeneity in the sample materials. The use of this technique for food microstructure detection is of recent date. It was traditionally used for the analysis of bone quality (Peyrin et al., 1998, 2000 Ritman et al., 2002). 

As reported earlier, several types of microscopy techniques can be used for the observation of food microstructure. They allow the generation of data in the form of images (Kalab et al., 1995). Because of the artifacts due to the preparation of samples before microscopy analysis, it is advisable to apply a variety of techniques to the same samples in order to compare the... 

Hermansson, A.M., Langton, M., and Loren, N. 2000. New approaches to characterizing food microstructures. www.mrs.org/pubbhcations/bulletin, December, 30-36. 

Imaging Techniques for the Study of Food Microstructure A Review... 

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