The integration of information at all levels of organization in a food system atomic and molecular through macroscopic properties is illustrated with cake batters as an example of a formulated food and bovine muscle as an example of a biologically intact, non-formulated food. Direct examples are given using macroscopic data collected in heat and water transport studies followed by integration o...

6 This paper investigates objective Bayesian variable selection when there is a hier7 archical dependence structure on the inclusion of predictors in the model, that, when 8 ignored, makes the variable selection dependent on how the predictors are coded. In 9 particular, we study the type of dependence found in polynomial response surfaces 10 of orders two and higher. We develop three classes o...