Mechanism of lowering water activity of konjac glucomannan and its derivatives

Food Hydrocolloids

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 383-388

  Yan, Heng ^a   Cai, Bing ^b   Cheng, Yan ^a   Guo, Guoning ^b   Li, Dan ^b   Yao, Xiaolin ^a   Ni, Xuewen ^a   Phillips, Glyn O ^c   Fang, Yapeng ^a   Jiang, Fatang ^a  

^a HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Yellow Crane Tower Science Park   (China)

^c GLYNDWR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Desorption isotherm; KGM; KSAP; Monolayer moisture content; Net isosteric heat

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; DESORPTION; GLYCOLS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; MONOLAYERS; POLYOLS; PROPYLENE; TOBACCO;

DESORPTION ISOTHERMS; FILTER PAPERS; ISOSTERIC HEATS; KONJAC GLUCOMANNAN; KONJAC SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER; MOISTURE RETENTION; MONOLAYER MOISTURE CONTENT; NET ISOSTERIC HEAT; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER;

GLYCEROL;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 80052715003     PISSN: 0268005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2011.02.018     Document Type: Article

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