Software packages for food engineering needs

The graphic user interface (GUI) software packages “ANNEKs” and “OPT-PROx” are developed to meet food engineering needs. “OPT-RROx” (OPTimal PROfile) is software developed to carry out thermal food processing optimization based on the variable retort temperature processing and global optimization technique. “ANNEKs” (Artificial Neural Network Enzyme Kinetics) is software designed for determining the kinetics of enzyme hydrolysis of protein at different initial reaction parameters based on the Artificial Neural Network’s and adaptive random search algorithm. The “OPT-PROx” software was successfully tested on the real thermal food processing problems, and has demonstrated a significant advantage over the traditionally used constant temperature processes in terms of total processing time and final product quality. The “ANNEKs” software can be effectively used for process design of enzyme hydrolysis of protein. The proposed in this research user friendly dialogue software can be useful for food scientists and engineers.