Texture of glassy corn cakes as a function of moisture content

Journal of Food Science

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 869-872

  Li, Y ^a   Kloeppel, K M ^a   Hsieh, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Corncake texture; Glass transition; Moisture isotherms; Scanning calorimetry

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031760265     PISSN: 00221147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1998.tb17916.x     Document Type: Article

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