Infrared Guided Smart Food Processing
Infrared spectroscopy is one of the main candidates for a rapid qualification of agricultural commodities and processed food, especially in the view of Processing Analytical Technology. Most of the previous infrared applications have been reported for the real-time evaluation of food quality and safety traits. However, knowing how to produce high-quality and innovative new food products using an efficient and precise strategy is even more crucial for food industrial manufacturers, especially with continuous or increasing variability along current food processing chain. Together with Food Innovation and Advances, let’s move forward a first step to explore the potential solutions to manage food processing from the infrared information on raw materials. With the development of advanced chemometrics and integrated infrared sensors, we open a new research topic named ‘Infrared Guided Smart Food Processing’, which could consider a large diversity of raw materials, and provide new solutions to further help food producers in understanding the consumer’s preferences and provide efficient, precise and innovative processing guidance to reach the expected products for their target audiences.