The Importance Of Food Rheology In The Food Industry

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INDUSTRIAL SIGNIFICANCE Food rheology has long been applied in many areas of the food industry to optimize the food product development, processing methodology and finishes product quality assessment. Generally, food rheology is the study of the food respond to the applied stress or strain and generate the information on the insight of the food structural organization (Farid, 2010). The rheological data are essential in many areas of the food industry such as processing engineering calculation, determining the ingredient functionality in product development, intermediate or finish product quality control, shelf life testing, evaluation of food texture by correlation to sensory data and analysis of rheological equations of state or constitutive …show more content…

Yield stress is the minimum shear stress required to initiate the flow of a multiphase system such as salad dressing, sauce, and spreads. It is important to study the flow behavior such as the tomato sauce drain from the bottle and the structural strength of the food dispersion like mayonnaise that is strongly associated with the consumer acceptance (Sun and Gunasekaran. 2009). It is also essential to give the insight of the structure retention like the chocolate coating layer on the ice cream bar. Without a precise and quantitative understanding of yield stress in the food product, the basic process calculation and manufacturing product in the food industry will be affected. Excessive high yield stress will be applied to the food that leads to unnecessarily high power consumption and high operating cost (Farid, …show more content…

The viscosity of a product determine the flow rate, drying and setting time and time required to dispense the fluid into the packing, so the processing instruments have to be customized based on the product viscosity to maximize the production efficiency and cost-effectiveness (Css, 2018). On the other hand, viscosity will affect the texture of the food, therefore, the viscosity of the food are control and monitored during the processing to ensure the finish product consistency. For example, an in-line viscometer was built in the yogurt factory to reduce the texture fluctuation and maximize the protein consumption (Krohne,

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