Food physical chemistry is considered to be a branch offood chemistry[1][2] concerned with the study of both physical and chemical interactions in foods in terms of physical and chemical principles applied to food systems, as well as the applications of physical/chemical techniques and instrumentation for the study of foods.[3][4][5][6] This field encompasses the "physiochemical principles of the reactions and conversions that occur during the manufacture, handling, and storage of foods."[7]
Food physical chemistry concepts are often drawn fromrheology, theories of transport phenomena, physical and chemicalthermodynamics, chemical bonds and interaction forces,quantum mechanics and reaction kinetics, biopolymer science, colloidal interactions, nucleation, glass transitions, and freezing,[8][9] disordered/noncrystalline solids.
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Visualisation of the humaninteractome network topology with the blue lines between proteins (represented as points) showing protein-protein interactions
Example of a GC-MS instrumentAn FTIR interferogram. The central peak is at zero retardation, ZPD) where the maximum amount of light passes through theinterferometer to the detector.
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