Volume 46, Issue 9 e16508
REVIEW ARTICLE

“Technological convergence” of preventive nutrition with non thermal processing

Gargi Dey

Corresponding Author

Gargi Dey

School of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, India

Gut Leben, Inc., San Diego, California, USA

Correspondence

Gargi Dey, School of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, Pin- 751024, India.

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Contribution: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing

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Annesha Ghosh

Annesha Ghosh

School of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, India

Contribution: ​Investigation, Writing - original draft

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Rajendra K. Tangirala

Rajendra K. Tangirala

Gut Leben, Inc., San Diego, California, USA

Clinical Chemistry, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Contribution: Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing

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First published: 01 March 2022

Abstract

Post COVID-19 pandemic realization and expanding consumer demand for functional nutrition have compelled the food industry to focus on one, clean-label technologies to improve energy expenditure, microbial inactivation, shelf stability, and retention of functional nutrients, and second on the systematic evaluation of food matrices for bioactive potential (functionality) and designing novel food matrices and products healthier than the existing formats. The food industry is rapidly heading toward a “technological convergence” with the goal of establishing highly efficient processing technologies for safe, shelf-stable functional products.

Novelty impact statement

In this review, we evaluated the utility and efficiency of various non-thermal processing technologies (cold plasma, ultra-sonication, high pressure, pulsed electric field, pulsed light processing) with respect to their capabilities to retain phytonutrient functionality and antioxidant potential in processed foods. The review also discusses existing gaps in current non thermal processing techniques and explores potential improvements necessary to foster reliable next-generation processing technologies.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors have declared no conflicts of interest for this article.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.

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