Applications of 3D Printing in Food Processing

A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Process Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2023) | Viewed by 1259

Special Issue Editor

Special Issue Information

Food processing has advanced greatly with the incorporation of various technologies into food manufacturing. This technological advance is fostered by increasing demand for customized food products with improved texture, flavor, and nutritional contents. In this context, three-dimensional (3D) printing is one of the fast-rising technologies in the food sector due to its ability to create complex structures with designed texture and nutritional properties as required by specific categories of consumers. However, the printing process is limited by the printability of food mixtures, which come with different material properties, such as melting, glass transition temperature, gelation, and viscosity that often leads to low productivity and fewer choices of materials for 3D printing. The understanding of the material is a key connection between the 3D printing operation and the final quality of the printed food. Researches have been devoted to providing a unique guide to assist the correlation between the materials and the technologies used during the construction of computer-aided 3D shapes. However, many aspects of 3D printing are still not fully understood.

This special issue on “The application of 3D printing in Food Processing” aims to incorporate the novel advances in the 3D printing technology with the rheological behavior of printing materials. Topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Principles of 3D printing and its correlation with rheological behavior of printing materials;
  • Novel technology to create materials with self-supporting mechanism during printing;
  • Optimization of quality parameters involved in 3D printing operation;
  • Future prospect of 3D food printing.

Dr. Won Byong Yoon
Guest Editor

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