Talk:WikiJournal Preprints/Practical applications of moisture sorption models for predicting the drying characteristics and shelf-life of malted and/or fermented FARO 44 rice plus soybean-based complementary foods
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Charles Bristone; Charles Ariahu; Julius Kwagh-hal Ikya; Mike Ojotu Eke. "Practical applications of moisture sorption models for predicting the drying characteristics and shelf-life of malted and/or fermented FARO 44 rice plus soybean-based complementary foods". WikiJournal Preprints. Wikidata Q121359712.
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This is the pre-publication public peer review for the article or fermented FARO 44 rice plus soybean-based complementary foods
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Review by anonymous peer reviewer , Retired professor with interest and contribution to the specific field of moisture sorptions in foods and f moisture sorpotion
These assessment comments were submitted on , and refer to this previous version of the article
The paper reports the experimental results of a set of moisture sorption isotherms determinations of several rice/soybean mixtures at several temperatures and their fitting with the BET and GAB model equations. It has several serious shortcomings and is unacceptable for publication in WikiJournal of Science for both lack of general interest and poor technical quality. Specific comments:
- The authors, like many in their field, confuse curve-fitting for scientific prediction.
- Comparison of the statistical fit a 3-parameters model (GAB) and 2-parameters model (BET) is a futile exercise.
- There is no information on whether or how representative the experimental data are.
- The very existence a water monolayer, the essence of the two models, has been questioned in the literature and hence the validity of the thermodynamic analysis is highly questionable too.
- Most of the data are presented with a ridiculous number of insignificant digits.
Recommendation: Reject.