Zadeike Daiva, Degutyte Rimgaile
Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, 50254 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Foods. 2023 Sep 7;12(18):3365. doi: 10.3390/foods12183365.
The development of food industry technologies and increasing the sustainability and effectiveness of processing comprise some of the relevant objectives of EU policy. Furthermore, advances in the development of innovative non-thermal technologies can meet consumers' demand for high-quality, safe, nutritious, and minimally processed foods. Acoustic technology is characterized as environmentally friendly and is considered an alternative method due to its sustainability and economic efficiency. This technology provides advantages such as the intensification of processes, increasing the efficiency of processes and eliminating inefficient ones, improving product quality, maintaining the product's texture, organoleptic properties, and nutritional value, and ensuring the microbiological safety of the product. This review summarizes some important applications of acoustic technology in food processing, from monitoring the safety of raw materials and products, intensifying bioprocesses, increasing the effectiveness of the extraction of valuable food components, modifying food polymers' texture and technological properties, to developing biodegradable biopolymer-based composites and materials for food packaging, along with the advantages and challenges of this technology.
食品工业技术的发展以及提高加工的可持续性和有效性是欧盟政策的一些相关目标。此外，创新非热技术的发展进步能够满足消费者对高品质、安全、营养且最少加工食品的需求。声学技术具有环保的特点，因其可持续性和经济效率而被视为一种替代方法。该技术具有诸多优势，如强化加工过程、提高加工效率并消除低效环节、改善产品质量、保持产品质地、感官特性和营养价值，以及确保产品的微生物安全性。本综述总结了声学技术在食品加工中的一些重要应用，包括监测原材料和产品的安全性、强化生物过程、提高有价值食品成分的提取效率、改变食品聚合物的质地和工艺性能、开发用于食品包装的可生物降解生物聚合物基复合材料和材料，以及这项技术的优势和挑战。
