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Record W4413364801 · doi:10.1016/j.jcs.2025.104256

Assessment of food component distribution and structure by confocal laser scanning microscopy: A review

2025· article· en· W4413364801 on OpenAlex
Md. Hafizur Rahman Bhuiyan, Nushrat Yeasmen, Valérie Orsat

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Cereal Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicCell Image Analysis Techniques
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersCollege of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of AberdeenMcGill UniversityMathWorksAmerican Foundry Society
KeywordsConfocal laser scanning microscopyConfocalLaser MicroscopyComponent (thermodynamics)Confocal microscopyLaser scanningMicroscopyLaserChemistryOpticsBiological systemMaterials scienceBiophysicsBiologyPhysics

Abstract

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Structure and component distribution of food is critical for understanding their physico-mechanical, chemical, thermal, and biological properties, which have a direct impact on quality, safety, and consumer acceptability. Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) has developed as an effective method for studying structure and component distribution in bio-matrices at the micro-/nano-scales. This study detailed the working mechanism, sample preparation, advantages and disadvantages of employing this emerging technique in food sectors. Furthermore, this study investigated the use of CLSM to examine the topographical, internal structural and component distribution features of various food items (i.e., cereal, cheese, noodle, chocolate, plant-derived meat, gel, emulsion, nut, baked item, vegetable, grain, processed food, etc.) emphasizing the importance of structure and component distribution in determining overall product quality during consumption and storage. CSLM helps visualize fat globules, protein networks, starch granules, and the distribution of components and additives. By providing insights into structural changes during processing, CSLM can aids in quality control, product development, and understanding texture, stability, and shelf life of food product. CLSM image-based quantitative analysis, which reveals the subtle links between internal structure-component distribution and food quality attributes. CSLM is an essential tool for advancing food research and innovation. Further research in this area may result in the production of more improved food products.

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Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.193

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
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 head0.004
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.312 · 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