Foto del docente

Pietro Rocculi

Associate Professor

Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Academic discipline: AGR/15 Food Science and Technology

Head of Interdepartmental Centre for Industrial Agrofood Research

Research

Keywords: Minimally processed food Novel non-thermal processing Modified atmosphere processing and packaging Food processing Water mobility in food Computer vision systems Shelf-life study Food quality

- Control and study of enzymatic and non enzymatic browning reactions in foods

- Studies on the application of combined technologies for food processing and presevation

- Studies on the effect of modified atmosphere packaging for storage of different foods (cheese, vegetables, fruit)

- Use of innovative techniques (computer vision systems, image analysis, electronic nose, FT-NIR spectrometry) for food quality evaluation and deteriorative phenomena studies

- Risk identification, characterization and minimization of toxicants (acrylamide) in cooked foods

- Study of preservation treatments for minimally processed fruit and vegetable stabilization

- Study of quality modification of meat and meat products as a consequence of different processing steps

- Application of calorimetry for food study

- Modified atmosphere processing of different food products