at the interface between food and circulating water underestimated
the cooling effect of the circulating water to the food surface
and corners. Second, the linear regression analysis applied to represent
the relationship between the dielectric properties of the
food components and their temperatures was based on the mean
values of the measurement results, which inevitably included measurement
errors. Nevertheless, the simulation results did provide
an insight into the reason why highly anticipated thermal run
away in sauce did not occur during RF sterilization of meat lasagna
product used in this study.