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

Changes in thermomechanical properties of feed in relation to composition and their effect on pellet manufacturing

Triangle plots used to confuse me, until I was told to see them as a cut through the corner of a 3D cube, with the three axes spanning the variables varied: P + S + W = constant! T. M.M. Bastiaansen, R. T. Benders, J. A. Dijksman, M. Thomas, W. H. Hendriks, S. de Vries,Continue reading “Changes in thermomechanical properties of feed in relation to composition and their effect on pellet manufacturing”