Dairy products viscosity estimated by laser speckle correlation

PLoS One. 2018 Sep 7;13(9):e0203141. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203141. eCollection 2018.

Abstract

Dairy products exhibit several physical properties that are crucial to define whether we like the food or not: firmness, creaminess, thickness, or lightness. Viscosity changes the flow properties of food and influences the appearance and the consistency of a product; this control variable is important in most production stages-manufacture, processing, and storage. Viscosity of heterogeneous products at a given temperature depends on its composition and physical state of its substances. Although rheology provides a method to access the product viscosity, it lacks non-contact full-field monitoring. We apply a simple correlation analysis of laser speckle images to evaluate viscosity properties of dairy products. Our approach ensures robust measurements with high degree of detectability.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Validation Study

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Dairy Products / analysis*
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Lasers
  • Optical Imaging / methods*
  • Viscosity

Associated data

  • Dryad/10.5061/dryad.b23dd4r

Grants and funding

DD Postnov’s work was supported by the grant from Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF17OC0025224). DuPont Nutrition Biosciences Aps provided support in the form of salaries for FM and providing product samples but did not have any additional role in development of optical method and related analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.