URBANA, Ill.– Food drying is a common process for preserving many types of food, including fruits and meat; however, drying can alter the food’s quality and nutritional value. In recent years, ...

Industrial food production heavily relies on process air to handle and process raw materials, intermediate products, and final products. Compressed air is vital in various other process applications, ...

Spray drying and encapsulation techniques have become indispensable for the formulation and preservation of sensitive bioactive compounds in both the food and pharmaceutical industries. Spray drying ...

Instant mashed potatoes are commonplace on grocery shelves and have found wide use institutionally and in domestic and international food aid programs. The most successful form of instant mashed ...

Negativity around processed foods does not tell the whole story according to a new paper published by the Institute of Food Technologists Processed food, especially ultra-processed foods (UPF) is, for ...

Walk into any specialty grocery or gift shop, and you're sure to spy a display of brightly colored (if pricey) freeze-dried candy. But while freeze-dried candy is a fairly recent trend, freeze drying ...