Lactic acid and lactate fermentation play important role in food and beverages production, control and quality. Analysis of lactate by standard methods is time, work consuming, and cannot be implemented at the production site. The alternative is the use of biosensors for lactate. The article reviews the biosensors for Dand L-lactic assay, their types, construction and application in food analys...

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of organic acids produced by Exiguobacterium sp. strain 12/1 (DSM 21148) in neutralization of alkaline wastewater emanated from beverage industry. This bacterium is known to be able to grow in medium of pH as high as pH 12.0 and to neutralize alkaline industrial wastewater from pH 12.0 to pH 7.5. The initial investigation on the type of function...

A multispectral system based on a monochrome camera and an adaptive illumination source is presented in this paper. Its preliminary application is focused on material discrimination for food and beverage industries, where monochrome, color and infrared imaging have been successfully applied for this task. This work proposes a different approach, in which the relevant wavelengths for the require...

The applications of plant proteins in the food and beverage industry have been hampered by their precipitation in acidic solution. In this study, pea protein isolate (PPI) with poor dispersibility in acidic solution was used to form complexes with soybean soluble polysaccharide (SSPS), and the effects of PPI aggregates on the structure and stability of PPI/SSPS complex emulsions were investigat...

Beverage intake can influence child diet quality in a positive or negative manner depending on the beverage type and amounts consumed. Parenting practices such as role modeling and control of home beverage availability have been associated with child beverage intake, whereas examination of the influence of parental beverage nutrition knowledge has been more limited. The purpose of this study wa...

Changes to the regulation of alcoholic beverage sales have occurred in more than a dozen states over the past three decades. These changes potentially alter the retail structure of the alcoholic beverage package store sector by introducing competition from grocery and bigbox stores and increasing costs. This paper reports the findings of a spatial econometric model of changes to alcoholic bever...

The demand for healthier eating habits, combined with the use of whey by the dairy industry has favoured the production of fermented dairy beverages based on whey. The dairy beverages are a kind of fermented milk which can be used milk or reconstituted milk and/or dairy products, including cheese whey. This research studied the physical-chemical and microbiological characteristics of dairy beve...

One of the challenges of studying food consumption behavior is to identify the drivers of choice for a food product. This is particularly important to design and develop new foods for which no previous information is available. Hibiscus sabdariffa L. (Bissap) is an herbaceous plant and an important source of vitamins, minerals, and bioactive compounds, which confer a number of potential health ...