Pulsed Electric Field Processing for Fruits and Vegetables

This month’s column reviews the theory and current applications of pulsed electric field (PEF) processing for fruits and vegetables to improve their safety and quality. This month’s column coauthor, Stefan Toepfl, is advanced research manager at the German Institute of Food Technologies and professor of food process engineering at Osnabrueck University of Applied Sciences. He has been active in process and equipment design for PEF processing and as a stakeholder for the PEF equipment…