Predictive and Accelerated Models for

Food Shelf-Life Assessment

Laíres Lima

Supervisors:
Márcio Carocho (CIMO-IPB)
Ana Isabel Pereira (CeDRI-IPB)
Manuela Pintado (CBQF-UCP)

PhD Pitch Day

April, 2023
Shelf-Life Studies

Sustainable
Consumer
Quality and safety Cost savings production and
satisfaction
consumption
 Shelf-Life Modeling

Addition of natural preservatives in food

Select and analyze the most significant products and evaluation of their impact in
parameters concerning food chemistry, food degradation and the performance of
physics, and biology using shelf-life tests the model.

Selection of Accelerating Incorporation of Natural

Factors Preservatives

01 02 03
Predictive models
Use of machine learning methods and
development of models to predict food
degradation based on step 01.
Shelf-Life Modeling

Machine Learning and Programming Languages

Shelf-life Models
Statistical Techniques and Softwares

Arrhenius Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) VS Code (Python)

Weibull Support Vector Machines (SVM) ORCA (molecular simulation)

Baranyi Avogadro (molecular

Random Forest
visualization)
Gompertz Principal Component Analysis MATLAB and R-Studio (statistics
(PCA) and optimization)
Ongoing Projects

Design of a stand-alone application for

optimization of plant matrix extractions
based on Response Surface
Methodology (RSM) and machine
learning methods.
Predictive and Accelerated Models for Food Shelf-Life Assessment

Thank you!
Any questions? Contact me:

laires.lima@ipb.pt
laireslima

PhD Pitch Day

April, 2023