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Review
. 2019;59(5):728-742.
doi: 10.1080/10408398.2018.1495613. Epub 2018 Dec 22.

Principles and recent applications of novel non-thermal processing technologies for the fish industry-a review

Yi-Ming Zhao  1   2 , Maria de Alba  2 , Da-Wen Sun  1 , Brijesh Tiwari  2
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Principles and recent applications of novel non-thermal processing technologies for the fish industry-a review

Yi-Ming Zhao et al. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2019.

Abstract

Thermal treatment is a traditional method for food processing, which can kill microorganisms but also lead to physicochemical and sensory quality damage, especially to temperature-sensitive foods. Nowadays consumers' increasing interest in microbial safety products with premium appearance, flavor, great nutritional value and extended shelf-life has promoted the development of emerging non-thermal food processing technologies as alternative or substitution to traditional thermal methods. Fish is an important and world-favored food but has a short shelf-life due to its extremely perishable characteristic, and the microbial spoilage and oxidative process happen rapidly just from the moment of capture, making it dependent heavily on post-harvest preservation. The applications of novel non-thermal food processing technologies, including high pressure processing (HPP), ultrasound (US), pulsed electric fields (PEF), pulsed light (PL), cold plasma (CP) and ozone can extend the shelf-life by microbial inactivation and also keep good sensory quality attributes of fish, which is of high interest for the fish industry. This review presents the principles, developments of emerging non-thermal food processing technologies, and also their applications in fish industry, with the main focus on microbial inactivation and sensory quality. The promising results showed great potential to keep microbial safety while maintaining organoleptic attributes of fish products. What's more, the strengths and weaknesses of these technologies are also discussed. The combination of different food processing technologies or with advanced packaging methods can improve antimicrobial efficacy while not significantly affect other quality properties under optimized treatment.

Keywords: CP; HPP; PEF; PL; US; fish; microbial inactivation; non-thermal technology; ozone; quality.

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