Title
Analysis of color changes in chicken egg yolks and whites based on degree of thermal protein denaturation during ohmic heating and water bath treatment
Date Issued
01 April 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Fukuda S.
Fukuoka M.
Shibata-Ishiwatari N.
Sakai N.
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Raw eggs were separated into yolks and whites before thermal treatment. An ohmic heating process at 20 kHz and 30 V was used for egg-yolk samples, and color changes were monitored with a computer vision system. Egg-white samples were treated with a water bath, and absorbance, as an expression of turbidity, was determined spectrophotometrically. Thermal protein denaturation of egg samples was analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) using the dynamic method, and estimated for several thermal schedules by kinetics analysis. The DSC thermogram was characterized by two endothermic peaks in each sample. With increasing temperature, the yolk gradually turned from a plain orange to a vivid yellow color, while the white gradually changed from transparent to cloudy. For all samples, an accurate correlation was obtained between color changes and the non-denaturation ratio of the second peak temperature. Results are of potential value for the modeling and design of egg-based products.
Start page
151
End page
161
Volume
222
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Alimentos y bebidas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85034817981
Source
Journal of Food Engineering
ISSN of the container
02608774
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan ( 16K00808 ).
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