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Record W7114790946 · doi:10.1016/j.focha.2025.101199

Study of the color development during electro-activation of lactose solution for lactulose production

2025· article· en· W7114790946 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueFood Chemistry Advances · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMicrobial Inactivation Methods
Canadian institutionsUniversité Laval
FundersFonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies
KeywordsLactuloseLactoseIsomerizationRelaxation (psychology)KineticsYield (engineering)Activation energy

Abstract

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Electro-activation (EA) for lactose isomerization into lactulose, a recognized prebiotic, has emerged as a promising and effective technology. However, despite its advantages, the yellowish colored electro-activated solution must be investigated to optimize lactulose production and new knowledge development. In this study, the color development of EA-lactose solution was studied as a function of electro-activation time (0–60 min), relaxation duration (0, 24, 48, and 72 h), and storage temperature for relaxation (5, 25, and 45 °C). The colorization of EA-lactose solution was compared with a chemically alkalinized lactose solution using KOH under equivalent alkalinity as that formed during electro-activation. The colorization was monitored through CIE L*a*b* color space and UV–vis absorption. The gradual increase of b* showed that the color was intense with the duration of electro-activation and the relaxation time. EA-lactose solutions absorbed light mostly in the UV-B region. To understand the color development, the kinetics were analyzed and were found to follow a zero-order reaction. The relatively lower activation energy showed better performance of the EA isomerization compared to chemical isomerization process. HPLC analyses showed that EA yielded higher lactulose (34.13 %) after 72 h relaxation and 19.44 % galactose, but with an intense yellowish color. Relaxation of 10 h was selected as the optimum, corresponding to lactulose and galactose of 30.39 % and 9.94 %, respectively. A similar result was obtained after 31 h for the chemical isomerization process. Moreover, the presence of oligosaccharides and unknown sugars was observed in HPLC, which may open future research on lactose electro-activation.

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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 score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.306

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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

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Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.296
Teacher spread0.282 · 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