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I feel honoured to have been asked by the convenors to contribute a discussion paper to the published proceedings of this Symposium on Water Relationships in Foods, which was organised as part of the 197th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
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van den Berg, C. (1991). Food-Water Relations: Progress and Integration, Comments and Thoughts. In: Levine, H., Slade, L. (eds) Water Relationships in Foods. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 302. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0664-9_2
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