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Record W4410523605 · doi:10.1080/87559129.2025.2507154

Recent Advances of Liquid Nitrogen Freezing for Improving the Freezing Efficiency and Physicochemical Quality of Food and Agricultural Products: A Review

2025· review· en· W4410523605 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueFood Reviews International · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicFreezing and Crystallization Processes
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAgricultureLiquid nitrogenFood qualityFood scienceChemistryQuality (philosophy)BiotechnologyBiochemical engineeringBiologyEngineeringOrganic chemistryEcologyPhysics

Abstract

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Freezing is a common method used to extend the shelf life of foods and freshly harvested agricultural products. Owing to the ultralow temperature (about −80 to −196℃) and large amount of heat absorbed during evaporation, liquid nitrogen freezing (LNF) can promote the formation of lots of ice nuclei, thereby generating fine intracellular ice crystals and preserving more microstructure and nutritional quality of products. It is reported that the processing efficiency is increased by 3 to 300 times and the capital investment is cut by three-quarters by LNF as compared to conventional air freezing (AF) whereas the running cost is doubled, showing a good prospect of the industrial application of LNF. Emphasis is placed on elaborating the merits, drawbacks, and application scopes for different products, such as meat and fruits. The influencing factors during processing conditions on the freezing curves, ice crystal size, and physicochemical properties are delineated along with the strategies for enhancing the product quality. To foster the systematical research and industrial application of LNF, further efforts should concentrate on developing a comprehensive scheme for achieving precise temperature control, conducting an in-depth investigation into the mechanism of LNF, and evaluating the commercial viability of both LNIF and LNSF.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.915
Threshold uncertainty score0.849

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.274 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it