Prediction of freezing time for food products using a neural network

Food Research International

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 557-562

  Mittal, G S ^a   Zhang, Jixian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

ANN; Food freezing; Freezing time

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; FOOD PRODUCT; FREEZING; MODEL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0033911353     PISSN: 09639969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-9969(00)00091-0     Document Type: Article

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