Nutrition and Flavor During Food Processing: Change Patterns and Mechanisms

Book excerpt: Food consumption is leaning toward products that provide both nutritional value and good flavor. In recent years, researchers have focused on how to scientifically analyze and evaluate foods’ nutritional and flavor qualities under different processing methods or parameters by various effect relationship analysis tools to investigate the internal relations between nutrients and flavor substances. However, during food processing, some unstable components may undergo degradation, volatilization, or secondary reactions due to changes in temperature, pressure, humidity, pH, etc., resulting in challenging research work with complex data variations in multiple dimensions.