Table 7.

Food applications of thermal imaging

Food product	Application	Reference
Chicken	Combined IR imaging-neural network method: Internal temperature of meat immediately following cooking	Ibarra et al. (2000)
Food simulant	Controlled heating and cooling cycles at the surface of food samples	Foster et al. (2006)
Wheat grain	Detection of infestations by six developmental stages (four larval instars, pupae and adults) of Cryptolestes ferrugineus inside wheat kernels	Manickavasagan et al. (2008c)
Apple	Detection of bruises in apples during forced convective heat transfer.	Varith et al. (2003)
Apple	Surface quality analysis of apple.	Veraverbeke et al. (2006)
Tomato	Bruise damage (Soft spots)	Van Linden et al. (2003)
Potato, cauliflower	Ice nucleation and freezing of plants	Fuller and Wisniewski (1998)
Wheat	Wheat class identification	(Manickavasagan et al. 2008a, b)
Meat	Pig meat quality defects	Gariepy et al. (1989)
Walnut	Temperature–time history and surface temperature distributions of walnut kernels during radio frequency treatment	Wang et al. (2006b)
Citrus drying	Determination of drying time for citrus fruit	Fito et al. (2004)