Original article: Modelling the effects of food ingredients and pH on high-pressure processing inactivation of Bacillus cereus spores: a laboratorial study

Autor: Xing-Rong Ju, Yu-Long Gao
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: International Journal of Food Science & Technology. 45:1862-1869
ISSN: 0950-5423
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.2010.02350.x
Popis: Summary The combination of high pressure and heat on Bacillus cereus spores in food matrix was investigated with the purpose of achieving a predictive model of microbial inactivation. The high-pressure processing (HPP) conditions were fixed at 540 MPa and 71 °C for 16.8 min, which were determined as the optimum conditions considering six-log-cycle reductions of B. cereus spores. The effects of soybean protein, sucrose, soybean oil and pH on the inactivation of B. cereus spores by HPP were evaluated, and a quadratic predictive model for the effects of food ingredients and pH on the reductions of B. cereus spores by HPP was built using response surface methodology. The experimental results showed that soybean protein, sucrose and pH significantly affected the reductions of B. cereus spores. The predictive model is significant, because the level of significance was P
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