With an awareness of the growing demand for inexpensive, nutritional, and functional proteins, this book provides an overview of various protein sources and their protein composition.
Finger millets are gaining popular recognition as a superior source of phytochemicals, micronutrients such as calcium, phosphorous, and iron, and dietary fibre, when compared with cereals such as wheat and rice.
Food toxicology deals with the existence of dangerous toxic components that food may contain, and various food-processing contaminants are formed during the production process as a direct result of traditional and emerging food-processing techniques.
Following in the tradition of popular previous editions, this book integrates the general principles of toxicology with a systematic characterization of the most important food toxicants.
This book provides the principles of nanomaterial-based biosensors, including methods of transduction, molecular recognition, and amplification; fabrication techniques; and development of point-of-care devices for environmental, food, and medical diagnostics.
Industrial Water and Waste Treatment: Technology Developments, the third volume in the Industrial Water and Waste Treatment series, presents a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge technological advancements and their practical applications in industrial wastewater management.
Food toxicology deals with the existence of dangerous toxic components that food may contain, and various food-processing contaminants are formed during the production process as a direct result of traditional and emerging food-processing techniques.
Industrial Water and Waste Treatment: Technology Developments, the third volume in the Industrial Water and Waste Treatment series, presents a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge technological advancements and their practical applications in industrial wastewater management.
This book covers the fundamentals of edible films and coatings, the basic types of film and coating forming materials, the latest developments in identifying and testing novel materials, and their effectiveness in the formulation of edible films and coatings.
Finger millets are gaining popular recognition as a superior source of phytochemicals, micronutrients such as calcium, phosphorous, and iron, and dietary fibre, when compared with cereals such as wheat and rice.
With an awareness of the growing demand for inexpensive, nutritional, and functional proteins, this book provides an overview of various protein sources and their protein composition.
Astonishingly rich in nutrients, Spirulina is one of the most popular and well researched functional foods in the multi-billion dollar global food supplement market.
Following in the tradition of popular previous editions, this book integrates the general principles of toxicology with a systematic characterization of the most important food toxicants.
This book provides the principles of nanomaterial-based biosensors, including methods of transduction, molecular recognition, and amplification; fabrication techniques; and development of point-of-care devices for environmental, food, and medical diagnostics.
This book reviews the evidence supporting the influence of plant fibers on our daily life by either having impacts on our nutrition or improving processed foods for human and animal feeding.
Most baking books do not focus on the simultaneous heat and mass transfer that occurs in the baking process, thereby ignoring a fundamental facet of process and product development.
When the first edition of Poultry Meat Processing was published, it provided a complete presentation of the theoretical and practical aspects of poultry meat processing, exploring the complex mix of biology, chemistry, engineering, marketing, and economics involved.
Differential Scanning Calorimetry: Applications in Fat and Oil Technology provides a complete summary of the scientific literature about differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), a well-known thermo-analytical technique that currently has a large set of applications covering several aspects of lipid technology.
We cannot control how every chef, packer, and food handler might safeguard or compromise the purity of our food, but thanks to the tools developed through physics and nanotech and the scientific rigor of modern chemistry, food industry and government safety regulators should never need to plead ignorance when it comes to safety assurance.
Covering all the recently adapted developments, challenges, and other healthy approaches in the process of frying, this book provides the details of various frying technologies and discusses its operations and machinery in depth.
Building Resilient Water and Food Systems Under Climate Change aims to help readers understand and implement strategies to build resilient communities that can ensure sustainable access to both food systems and water resources.
Covering all the recently adapted developments, challenges, and other healthy approaches in the process of frying, this book provides the details of various frying technologies and discusses its operations and machinery in depth.
This new volume begins with an overview of bioactive compounds and nutraceuticals along with explanations of their chemical characteristics, profile, and physicochemical aspects.
This new volume begins with an overview of bioactive compounds and nutraceuticals along with explanations of their chemical characteristics, profile, and physicochemical aspects.
The ability to provide quality juices that contain proper vitamins and nutritional components strongly depends on the processes fruits undergo during the various stages of industrial manufacturing.
Structured into four main parts, this book navigates the intersection between food and functionality of plant-based products and provides insight into the nutritional composition of some key elements of plant-based diets.
Biotechnology, particularly eco-friendly enzyme technologies, has immense potential for the augmentation of diverse food products utilizing vast biodiversity, resolving environmental problems owing to waste disposal from food and beverage industries.
Dietary Supplement GMP is a one-stop how-to road map to the final dietary supplement GMP regulations recently issued by the FDA covering the manufacture, packaging, and holding of dietary supplement products.
Modern life is intense and moves quickly, and while people want to care for themselves, they do not seem to have time to make and consume healthy foods.
Handbook of Analysis and Extraction Methods of Anthocyanins provides a comprehensive guide to learning about the properties of anthocyanins, which have gained increasing importance in recent years and have attracted widespread attention from industry, academia, and government, as well as the precise, applicable, and modern methods of their analysis developed to date.
Modern life is intense and moves quickly, and while people want to care for themselves, they do not seem to have time to make and consume healthy foods.
With the advent of modern tools of molecular biology and genetic engineering and new skills in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology, fermentation technology for industrial applications has developed enormously in recent years.
An instructive and comprehensive overview of the use of biotechnology in agriculture and food production, Biotechnology in Agriculture and Food Processing: Opportunities and Challenges discusses how biotechnology can improve the quality and productivity of agriculture and food products.
Biosensors are poised to make a large impact in environmental, food, and biomedical applications, as they clearly offer advantages over standard analytical methods, including minimal sample preparation and handling, real-time detection, rapid detection of analytes, and the ability to be used by non-skilled personnel.
This research volume aims at outlining the substantial role of information asymmetry in agri-food chains and how building trust and mitigating this problem could enhance the performance of these chains.
