Enzymatic acivity

Problem

A major contributor to undesirable browning effects in fruit and vegetables is the enzymatic browning caused by PPO, polyphenol oxidase (Martinez & Whitaker 1995). Enzymatic browning can henceforth be expressed by the dioxygen consumption of PPO, as this is directly related to the activity of PPO. To avoid enzymatic browning of fruits and vegetables it is important to store them under conditions that suppress the enzymatic activity.

The activity of PPO was investigated as a function of different levels of O₂, CO₂, temperature, pH, and substrate according to a factorial design. A traditional ANOVA model of the data did not shed much light on the relation between these factors and the activity, while a multiplicative model based on GEMANOVA/PARAFAC was easy to interpret. The problem presented here is part of an investigation conducted by Hanne Heimdal and described in detail in [Bro & Heimdal 1996, Heimdal et al. 1997].

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Bro R, Heimdal H, Enzymatic browning of vegetables. Calibration and analysis of variance by multiway methods, Chemom Intell Lab Syst, 1996, 34, 85-102

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Data

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