Microstructure of confectionery masses revealed by cryo-planing Jaap Nijsse 1 , Adriana Fernanda Cruz Serna 2 and Sergey M. Melnikov 2

Microstructure of confectionery masses revealed by cryo-planing Jaap Nijsse 1 *, Adriana Fernanda Cruz Serna 2 and Sergey M. Melnikov 2 1 Consistence Microstructure Research Laboratory, Barendrecht, Netherlands, 2 IFFCO Central R&D, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Here we present a novel, combined cryo-scanning electron microscopy (cryo- SEM) and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) method for imaging of chocolate confectionery product microstructures of several millimeters down to about...