Retort temperature profile for optimum quality during conduction- heating of foods in retortable pouches

Journal of Food Science

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 673-678

  Terajima, Y ^a   Nonaka, Y ^a  

^a Nihon University   (Japan)

Author keywords

cook value; optimization; retort temperature; retortable pouch; thermal processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029782302     PISSN: 00221147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1996.tb12179.x     Document Type: Article

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