Heating Without Harm

Washington State University professor of food engineering and 2024 IFT Fellow Shyam Sablani heads a food packaging and processing research program that seeks to find novel approaches to both.

“We focus on food processing technologies, which include thermals such as microwave and radio frequency,” explains Sablani.

Sablani led two recent projects that used three technologies created as alternatives to conventional thermal treatments for safe, shelf-stable products. Two, microwave-assisted thermal s…