Abstract

Extraction or separation of food components is used to prepare products such as fruit juices, cream or cooking oils, to produce sugar or gelatin for use as ingredients in other processes, or to retrieve high-value compounds, including essential oils and enzymes. This chapter describes the theory and equipment that are used for physical separation of food components by centrifugation, filtration, expression, solvent extraction and membrane separation.

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