Heterogeneous swelling of couscous particles exposed to a high relative humidity air, as revealed by TD-NMR and X-ray tomography

Visiting student Ilija worked with local experts to investigate the swelling behavior of hygroscopic particles via both x-ay tomography and NMR. And why not take couscous as a tasty model system?

Ilija Vego, Richard T. Benders, Alessandro Tengattini, Frank J. Vergeldt, Joshua A. Dijksman, John P.M. van Duynhoven — Food Structure 37, 100330 (2023)

10.1016/j.foostr.2023.100330