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Institut National De La Recherche Agronomique

Mccain Foods Limited

Gradient Inc.

Jean-Pierre Pain

Gerard Antonini

Olivier Cerf

Andre Cayol

Fabrice Desailly

Adeline Goullieux

Jean-Francois Cousin

Jean-Luc Berry

A process for treating vegetables and fruit in order to reduce their resistance to cutting. Treatment involves the application of a high electric field directly to the vegetables and fruit, under such conditions that the resulting temperature increase for the vegetables and fruit is almost zero and at any rate, sufficiently low not to amount to a preheating step.

Process for treating vegetables and fruit before cooking

A check sample of a deep-frozen product or a product is provided, whose keeping, conserving or preserving temperature, which is below ambient temperature, must be controlled or checked. The sample includes a case or envelope, which is sealed in an inviolable manner and, in the case or envelope, a meltable object having a predetermined shape different from the internal shape of the case. This object has a melting point below or equal to the thawing or keeping temperature of the product and the initial shape of the object is impossible to reconstitute following thawing or reheating, even of a partial nature, of the product. According to the invention, the case comprises a first part made invisible and integral with the product or a pack containing the latter by insertion into the pack or the case a second part, which is visible and integral with the first part. The object has a first portion at least partly filling the first invisible part of the case and a second portion having a shape which is at least partly different from the internal shape of the second visible part of the case. This second portion of the object has at least one transparent window for rendering the object visible.

Control sample of a deep-frozen product or a product, whose keeping

Process and apparatus for investigating and controlling changes of state

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Le Meux, France

Jean-Pierre Pain