A heating medium injector includes an injector structure defining a heating medium flow path and a product flow path. The heating medium flow path extends to a contact location along an axis of the injector, while the product flow path also extends to the contact location along the injector axis. The contact location comprises a location at which the heating medium flow path and product flow path merge within the injector. In a region along the injector axis, the product flow path is defined between a first flow surface and a second flow surface. The first flow surface comprises a surface of a boundary wall separating the heating medium flow path from the product flow path and the second flow surface comprises a surface of an opposing second boundary wall. The second flow surface is in substantial thermal communication with a second flow surface cooling structure.

Device and method suitable for disinfecting herbs using plasma are disclosed. The device comprises a chamber and two sets of electrodes in an opposed position one relative to the other, inside the chamber. Each electrode in one set has a counterpart electrode in the other set, the two electrodes positioned facing each other and being configured to connect to a RF HV power supply, to produce a plasma-generating EM field in the space between the electrodes. The device further comprises a dielectric carrier positioned inside the chamber in the space between the two sets of electrodes, the carrier being dimensioned and configured to carry herbs in granular form such as powder or particles thereon. A portable sealable container comprising a unidirectional valve is also disclosed, configured to store herbs thereinside during plasma treatment in the device, and to store the disinfected herbs after treatment under vacuum. A device for disinfecting herbs by evaporating a disinfection agent in an evacuated chamber is also disclosed where plasma is used in any of several methods to enhance, improve and expedite the disinfection process.

Systems and methods for providing food intervention, pumping up, and tenderization are discussed. While such systems can include any suitable component, in some cases, they include a needleless spray nozzle head that injects injectate into food without requiring the head to contact the food. In some cases, the head comprises an elongated needleless spray bar that defines multiple internal fluid channels that extend from a first end to a second end of the spray bar. In some cases, the head comprises a manifold system with a first manifold portion at the first end and a second manifold portion at the second end of the spray bar. In some cases, the first manifold portion directs the injectate towards the second end, and the second manifold portion directs the injectate towards the first end of the elongated needleless spray bar. Other implementations are described.

Provided are foodstuff treatment systems that are convertible between a processing mode in which foodstuffs are processed (e.g., disinfected) and a clean-in-place mode in which the system operates to clean material (e.g., biological buildup) that has accumulated within the system.

A measuring system for automatically determining and/or monitoring the quality of a liquid or viscous foodstuff, including a housing with an interior space for a product container for the foodstuff, the product container has a product space for the foodstuff and a lid provided with a probe with a thermometer, a heating and cooling device for the interior space, a sensor device for determining a non-temperature quality-related parameter value of the foodstuff, and a control unit designed to control the measuring system, measure, store, process and/or export the measured parameter values, and to control the heating and/or the cooling system according to a desired time-temperature program. The cooling system includes a cold buffer, a cooler for the cold buffer, and a separate refrigerant circuit. The cold buffer includes a buffer holder with a phase-transition material, wherein the refrigerant circuit includes a cooling circuit with a pump.

An intelligent heat-preserving pot cover includes a cover body, a top portion of the cover body is connected with a temperature control body, a ventilation hood is arranged between the cover body and the temperature control body. A through hole is arranged at the top portion of the cover body, the temperature control body is provided with a heating tube and an ultraviolet lamp tube via a mounting column passing through the through hole. A water tank is arranged in the temperature control body, and a spray pipe is led out of the water tank and passes through the through hole. The temperature control body is provided with a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor and a controller, and the controller is configured for controlling the heating tube, the ultraviolet lamp tube and the spray pipe to work according to data of the temperature sensor and the humidity sensor.

Disclosed are various embodiments of an auger-style treatment tank equipped with instrumentation. In one embodiment, an auger treatment tank includes an auger configured to rotate within treatment liquid in the auger treatment tank. The auger includes an auger shaft and at least one auger flight coupled to and helically disposed about the auger shaft. The auger treatment tank also includes one or more sensors configured to provide data directly or indirectly indicating a torque transmitted to the auger to effect rotation.

A food management system is provided. The food management system includes a plurality of electrodes arranged to be spaced apart from each other with food therebetween, a frequency modulator configured to adjust a frequency of power supplied to the plurality of electrodes, memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions, and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the plurality of electrodes, the frequency modulator, and the memory, wherein instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the food management system to control the frequency modulator such that power at each of a plurality of frequencies is sequentially supplied to the plurality of electrodes, determine a resonance frequency based on an impedance of the food at each frequency, determine a state of the food based on the resonance frequency of the food, and perform an operation corresponding to the determined state of the food.

A portable UV sterilising device comprises a proximal portion configured to be held by a user, and a distal portion adjacent the proximal portion, a plurality of UV light sources positioned at the distal portion and spaced around the distal portion, the plurality of UV light sources configured to project UV light outside the distal portion, wherein when the plurality of UV light sources is activated the plurality of UV light sources is configured to project the UV light radially around substantially all of the distal portion, and a control unit configured to control at least one of exposure duration and UV light intensity for the plurality of UV light sources, wherein the control unit is configured to use at least one machine learning (ML) model to control at least one of the exposure duration and the UV light intensity.

A portable UV sterilising device comprising a proximal portion configured to be held by a hand of a user, a distal portion coupled to the proximal portion, and a plurality of UV light sources positioned at the distal portion. The UV light sources are spaced around the distal portion and configured to project UV light outside the distal portion. A control unit positioned at least partly within the proximal portion and is electrically coupled to the plurality of UV light sources. When the UV sterilising device is activated, the control unit controls the UV light sources to project UV light radially around at least a part of the distal portion.