Combined pre-treatments effects on zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) squash microbial load reduction
| Autor: | Margarida C. Vieira, Cristina L. M. Silva, Filipa I.G. Neves |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Food preservation
Frozen vegetables Food industry Blanching Zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) Microbiology 03 medical and health sciences Cucurbita pepo Continuous and discontinuous UV-C radiation Cucurbita Deinococcus radiodurans Food Preservation Freezing Vegetables Enterococcus faecalis Food microbiology 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences biology 030306 microbiology Chemistry business.industry Temperature Water General Medicine Contamination biology.organism_classification Bacterial Load Horticulture Microbial load reduction Deinococcus Food quality business Bacterial load Food Science Squash |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
| ISSN: | 1879-3460 |
| Popis: | Freezing vegetables requires pre-treatments to reduce microbial load and destroy enzymes that impair the frozen product quality. So far blanching has been the most effective pre-treatment, preferred by the food industry, despite its severity: heating up to temperatures close to 100 °C for 1-3 min causes sensory and texture changes in most horticultural products. Alternative blanching treatments, using UV-C radiation combined with milder thermal treatments or with thermosonication, may improve the quality of the final frozen vegetables. Zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.), the vegetable under study, has an availability in fresh restricted to a season, needing therefore to be often frozen to be used throughout the year. In this study, its surface was first inoculated with two vegetable contaminants, Enterococcus faecalis and Deinococcus radiodurans cells, which are resistant, respectively, to high temperatures and to radiation and then submitted to several blanching treatments, single or combined, and the effect on these microorganisms reduction was evaluated. As single treatments, water blanching (the control treatment, as it is the blanching treatment traditionally used) was applied up to 180 s at temperatures ranging from 65 to 90 °C, and UV-irradiation applied in continuous. As combined pre-treatments, water blanching combined with UV-C (continuous or in pulses), and thermosonication (20 kHz at 50% of power) combined with UV-C pulses were also studied. The continuous UV-C radiation incident irradiance was 11 W/m2 up to 180 s, and the pulses at incident radiance of 67 W/m2, lasting 3.5 s each (35 pulses). Mathematical modeling of bacterial reduction data was carried out using the Bigelow, the Weibull and Weibull modified models, and estimation of their respective kinetic parameters proved that the latter models presented a better fit below 75 °C. The best results proved to be the combination of water blanching at temperatures as low as 85 °C during |
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