Optical properties Flashcards
Application
= physical properties of the food
= Food composition: moisture, sugar, salt
= consumer judgment on food appearance and produce some kind of visual effect.
determined by the way they interact with electromagnetic radiation
Visible
infrared
Different
Transmittion Reflection
Refraction Diffraction
Absorption Scattering
Colorimetry
- Colour measurement
- Organoleptic perception of properties
- Perception
Gloss
light specularly reflected from a plain smooth surface.
represents intensity of light reflected at the surface at different angles of incidence and viewing.
Translucency
an opaque-to-transparent scale.
In liquid foods, light is ____ when interacting with
suspended particles. Most foods are neither fully opaque nor fully transparent, but are _______.
scattered
translucent
Color
a beam of light composed of irregularly distributed energy emitted at different wavelengths
Objects modify light colorants in the food selectivity ___________________
absorb some wavelengths of incident light while reflecting or transmitting others
Rayleigh’s theory
describes scatter by particles which are much smaller than the wavelength of light
Diffuse reflectance occurs where light is reflected from a
particles surface which is greater than the wavelength of light impinging on it
The particles primarily responsible for scattering in milk are
fat globules and casein micelles.
Syneresis
Cheese Manufacture
Colour wavelength
~ 400- 750
~ 400 - 435
Purple - comple yellowish green
Blue
435- 480 comple yellow
Green
500-560 comple red
580 - 595
Yellow comple blue