Novelties of Food Freezing Research in Europe and Beyond. Flair-Flow 4, INRA, Paris (France), ISBN: 2-7380-1145-4

This document is a Flair-Flow Europe Synthetic Brochure for SMEs. It is one of a series of biannual publications targeted to three categories of end-users: SME (small and medium enterprises), consumers and health professionals. Extract from the table of contents: food refrigeration, worldwide nutrition and well-being of the European citizens; state of the art and conventional freezing modes; several emerging methods of food freezing (individual quick freezing of foods by hydrofluidisation and pumpable ice slurries; high-pressure freezing; magnetic resonance freezing); modelling and optimisation of food freezing processes (thermophysical properties and unsteady heat transfer; computational fluid dynamics; frozen food quality); new initiatives and perspectives.