Dynamic Water Absorption by Foods
Dynamic Water Absorption by Foods
Dynamic water or water vapor absorption by food can frequently be described by an empirical model whose parameters are the initial and equilibrium moisture contents ( and , respectively) and a single characteristic time constant, . This Demonstration uses such a model to generate the moisture versus time relationship in moisture sorption from the atmosphere or water gain by soaking. It also generates a curve depicting the time it takes to reach a chosen fraction of the equilibrium (asymptotic) moisture or water content.
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