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Electrolyzed Water in Food: Fundamentals and Applications

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Electrolyzed water (EW) considered as a novel broad-spectrum and high-performance bactericide has gained immense popularity over the last few decades. It offers several advantages over other sanitizers for sanitation of both food contact and noncontact surfaces, such as safety, effective disinfection, easy operation, relatively inexpensive, and environmentally friendly. EW can be produced by electrolyzing soft tap water with sodium chloride as the chemical additive. Different producing equipment and parameters greatly influence the types and properties of EW . During production period, preparation settings are vital factors on the basic properties of EW (available chlorine concentration (ACC) , pH, and oxidization reduction potential (ORP) ) and then influence its inactivation efficiency, including current, water flow rate, salt/acid concentration, electrolyte and electrode, water temperature and hardness, storage environments, and so on. This chapter provides an overview of the production, properties, types of EW , as well as a section on its advantages and disadvantages.

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Xuan, X., Ling, J. (2019). Generation of Electrolyzed Water. In: Ding, T., Oh, DH., Liu, D. (eds) Electrolyzed Water in Food: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3807-6_1

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