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SUBMITTER: Sk MP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3337553 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sk Md Palashuddin MP Jaiswal Amit A Paul Anumita A Ghosh Siddhartha Sankar SS Chattopadhyay Arun A
Scientific reports 20120426
We report the finding of the presence of carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) in different carbohydrate based food caramels, viz. bread, jaggery, sugar caramel, corn flakes and biscuits, where the preparation involves heating of the starting material. The CNPs were amorphous in nature; the particles were spherical having sizes in the range of 4-30 nm, depending upon the source of extraction. The results also indicated that particles formed at higher temperature were smaller than those formed at lower tem ...[more]