
Food Frontiers, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: May 20, 2025
ABSTRACT The increasing demand for frozen products has led companies to offer a variety of foods that may struggle maintain quality. Traditional freezing methods often negatively impact food quality, affecting texture, color, flavor, and so forth. Liquid nitrogen (LN 2 ) offers promising alternative, reducing time preserving structure components. This review examines the use LN across different matrices, highlighting its advantages limitations based on employed technique. Additionally, innovative applications in processing transformation are explored. shown notable benefits seafood, minimizing lipid oxidation structural damage, leading improved texture sensory properties. In meat, it helps preserve protein integrity, limit moisture loss, tissue structures, enhancing freshness while also contributing microbiological safety. vegetable products, ’s effects depend cellular water migration. While some studies report losses polyphenols flavonoids, others highlight vitamin C antioxidant retention. Beyond freezing, is emerging as an tool processing, particularly peeling nuts fruits, quality degradation, compared conventional methods. dough steamed bread, textural properties during storage. combining with encapsulation, microencapsulation, or grinding technique can lead stabilization bioactive compounds. Despite significant benefits, scalability each process be challenging relation matrix. Bridging gap between laboratory research industrial application will essential unlocking full potential preservation.
Language: Английский