JOURNAL OF FOOD ENGINEERING, cilt.59, ss.169-175, 2003 (SCI-Expanded)
Compression stress relaxation of potato tissue exposed to pulsed electric field (PEF) treatment, with or without osmotic pretreatment, was measured and modelled with five parameter generalised Maxwell model. The changes in viscoelastic model coefficients were quantified as a response to applied field strength, pulse length, and pulse number and were correlated with conductivity changes. Using the same approach, additional effects of different osmotic treatments along with constant PEF treatment were also studied.