Landmarks in the historical development of twenty first century food processing technologies

• Published in: Food research international Vol. 97; pp. 318 - 339
• Main Authors: Misra, N.N., Koubaa, Mohamed, Roohinejad, Shahin, Juliano, Pablo, Alpas, Hami, Inácio, Rita S., Saraiva, Jorge A., Barba, Francisco J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2017; Elsevier
• Subjects: Biotechnology; Chemical and Process Engineering; Conventional food process; Emerging food technologies; Engineering Sciences; Equipment Design; Food and Nutrition; Food Handling - history; Food Handling - instrumentation; Food Handling - methods; Historical review; History, 21st Century; Life Sciences; Non-thermal processing; Pressure; Temperature; Thermal processing; Ultrasonics; Emerging food technologies; Conventional food process; Historical review; Thermal processing; Non-thermal processing
• ISSN: 0963-9969; 1873-7145
• DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2017.05.001

Over a course of centuries, various food processing technologies have been explored and implemented to provide safe, fresher-tasting and nutritive food products. Among these technologies, application of emerging food processes (e.g., cold plasma, pressurized fluids, pulsed electric fields, ohmic heating, radiofrequency electric fields, ultrasonics and megasonics, high hydrostatic pressure, high pressure homogenization, hyperbaric storage, and negative pressure cavitation extraction) have attracted much attention in the past decades. This is because, compared to their conventional counterparts, novel food processes allow a significant reduction in the overall processing times with savings in energy consumption, while ensuring food safety, and ample benefits for the industry. Noteworthily, industry and university teams have made extensive efforts for the development of novel technologies, with sound scientific knowledge of their effects on different food materials. The main objective of this review is to provide a historical account of the extensive efforts and inventions in the field of emerging food processing technologies since their inception to present day. [Display omitted] •Food preservation aspects, from the beginning with heat and cold storage discussed•The concept of hurdle technologies described•A historical review of emerging technologies over the 21st century is presented.