The use of nanomaterials in food packaging is a rapidly advancing area with massive potential for increasing shelf life and improving the safety of food products.
There is an increasing need for the food industry to provide information to ensure quality requirements and prevent the food fraud, applying in-situ and on-line technologies for full process control along the food chain.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of bioactive phytochemicals within by-products from leaf, stem, root, and tuber vegetables, and it explores the valorisation of these vegetable cultivation and processing by-products, not only as a source of valuable bioenergy but also for health purposes.
Rice is a fundamental principal food for more than half of the world’s people, providing more than 20% of the calories consumed globally, particularly in Latin America and West Indies, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
Insects have been consumed by various cultures across the globe for centuries, yet their potential as a sustainable and nutritious food source has only recently gained widespread attention.
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of food and dairy process engineering, catering to a diverse audience ranging from students and budding engineers to seasoned professionals in the food industry.
Insects have been consumed by various cultures across the globe for centuries, yet their potential as a sustainable and nutritious food source has only recently gained widespread attention.
This book collates bioactive compounds from the by-products of bulb, flower and fruit vegetables, and it explores vegetable processing by-products utilization.
This book collates bioactive compounds from the by-products of bulb, flower and fruit vegetables, and it explores vegetable processing by-products utilization.
This book covers sugar, salt and milk fat from a chemical perspective, and presents an overview of the role of these ingredients in our food, focusing on their flavors, satiety-inducing properties, nutritional impact, and health effects.
This book highlights the science underlying honey, which is central to an understanding of conventional medicine or ingredients of food used mostly in all societies and it is attracting increasing interest among food scientists and professionals worldwide.
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of food and dairy process engineering, catering to a diverse audience ranging from students and budding engineers to seasoned professionals in the food industry.
Rice is a fundamental principal food for more than half of the world’s people, providing more than 20% of the calories consumed globally, particularly in Latin America and West Indies, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
Reviews the nutritional benefits, applications and challenges of using protein from black soldier flies and yellow mealworms in poultry, pig and fish feed Considers recent advances in the development of mass breeding/rearing techniques for the major insect species used as food or feed Explores some of the key issues currently facing the sector, such as the need to ensure product safety, the development of effective extraction techniques and consumer attitudes towards eating protein derived from insects
The application of microwaves has been a major advancement in food processing over the past 50 years, and yet to date there have been very few publications focusing exclusively on microwave processing and none covering the latest technological and theoretical advances.
Large amounts of money, time and effort are devoted to sensory and consumer research in food and beverage companies in an attempt to maximize the chances of new products succeeding in the marketplace.
Progress in understanding the association between the health benefits of foods, prevention of diseases and immunity enhancers has led researchers to focus on functional components of foods.