Study of the porous structure of white chocolate by confocal Raman microscopy

European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 919-926

  Dahlenborg, Hanna ^a,b   Millqvist Fureby, Anna ^a   Brandner, Birgit D ^a   Bergenstahl, Bjorn ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SURFACE CHEMISTRY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chocolate; Cocoa butter; Raman microscopy; Spectroscopy; Surface structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865287012     PISSN: 14387697     EISSN: 14389312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejlt.201200006     Document Type: Article

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