著者
Hitoshi Shibayama Naoki Kobayashi
出版者
Japanese Society for Food Science and Technology
雑誌
Food Science and Technology Research (ISSN:13446606)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.FSTR-D-23-00144, (Released:2023-12-19)

The behavior of a raw carrot bolus through a vertical pipe was investigated with a laser detector. To investigate the effect of cohesiveness, samples were pre-processed in various stages, as follows: no compression, 50 % and 80 % compression, and blending with xanthan gum. First, the transit time of the bolus was measured from the time series signal of the voltage drop corresponding to the density of the food fragments. The results showed that the transit time was shorter for the bolus with greater assumed cohesiveness. Next, we analyzed the structure of the bolus flow by obtaining the power spectrum of the time series signal, which exhibited a power-law relationship of the form