This is the major driving
force for applying HPP on fruit products specifically due to their high nutritional
benefit. HPP treatment also has the potential for sterilization of
food products if applied at elevated temperatures (60 to 90 °C) along
with the temperature increase due to adiabatic compression. By
choosing the appropriate process conditions, it is possible to completely
inactivate both vegetative cells as well as microbial spores in order to
obtain food products that are shelf-stable (Black et al., 2007; Matser,
Krebbers, van den Berg, & Bartels, 2004).