4.3. Folate thermal degradation
Generally for each temperature, folate degradation kinetics were comparable in spinach and green beans. For all temperatures, a plateau was reached for both vegetables. The kinetics neither followed a first order nor a second order reaction, and a first order reaction with a partial conversion was still not satisfying, for the three temperatures and the two matrixes studied. This is in contradiction other studies where authors observed total folate degradation following a first order reaction