Food and beverage technology

This book provides a broad overview of the chemicals in food that have the potential to induce adverse health effects.

This edited book covers all the existing possibilities of using food waste as a potential, alternative and 'ready to use', feed stock for biofuels production.

This is the first book to explore the science underlying the Jerusalem artichoke, which is also known as Helianthus tuberosus L.

This book offers an excellent introduction to Korean functional foods and shares latest important information for food scientists and nutritionists, including accurate, up-to-date information on Korean food science together with background information, archeological findings, as well as food methods and research on Korean fermented foods (e.

This book puts together all aspects of valorization of vegetable and fruit wastes (VFWs) into different biocommodities and platform chemicals using fermentation and non-fermentation processes.

This book discusses the various aspects of the health and nutritional benefits of the wonder grains, small millets.

This book focuses on in vitro techniques and challenges of producing nutraceutical compounds  from plant cells.

This book reviews applications of nanomaterial and nanodevices in the food industry.

This book highlights important aspects of food biotechnology.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technical notes, research designs, literature, and 3DP (three-dimensional printing) technology applications for effective food printing.

This textbook highlights the engineering fundamentals and processing aspects of agricultural produce and covers important aspects of agro-processing and food engineering in one place.

The book offers an updated perspective on the unique characteristics of millets.

This book reviews the science and technology of food packaging and covers the potential innovations in the food packaging sector.

This book is the result of more than 20 years of experience in working with near-infrared spectroscopy for raw milk analysis.

This book summarizes the current knowledge of anthocyanins, provides systematic information for future exploration of anthocyanin applications.

This book reviews applications of nanomaterial and nanodevices in the food industry.

This book provides a comprehensive summary of the latest knowledge regarding functional foods and new therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative disorders through explaining specific mechanisms for natural remedies and functional foods as well as alternative treatment and supplementary approaches for neurodegenerative diseases.

This book discusses CRISPR/Cas- one of the most powerful tools available to scientists for genome editing.

This book offers effective and competitive food supply chains that are the consequence of technological innovation, collaboration, small agri-food business cases, entrepreneurial opportunities, cold chain technology management, disruptive technologies, and performance assessment through empirical analysis, case studies, and multimethod research in the food industry.

The book provides significant information on some of the promising edible medicinal plants and how these possess both nutritive as well as medicinal value.

Packaging plays a major role in the environmental footprints of products from any industrial sector, and thus is important to address the sustainability issues of packaging.

The book discusses up-to-date and detailed information about the nutritional quality of forage in the biodiversity-rich Himalayan region and their potential in livestock feeding.

This book is written by international experts with both academic and industrial credentials.

The book provides essential information on some of the promising edible medicinal plants and how these possess both nutritional as well as therapeutic value.

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (ELCA)  that was developed about three decades ago demands a broadening of its scope to include lifecycle costing and social aspects of life cycle assessment as well, drawing on the three-pillar or 'triple bottom line' model of sustainability, which is the result of the development of the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA).

This comprehensive and authoritative book aims to encompass the best and current practices in the field of contemporary food packaging.

This book describes innovative agricultural methods using thermal and non-thermal microwave or plasma energies.

This book discusses the various aspects of sustainable packaging edibles in food industry.

This comprehensive edited book on microbial prospective discusses the innovative approaches and investigation strategies, as well as provides a broad spectrum of the cutting-edge research on the processing, properties and technological developments of microbial products and their applications.

This book comprehensively introduces non-destructive methods for food quality (i.

This book introduces the Chinese boletes, including the history, ecological and economic values, as well as the geographical distribution patterns with a highlight on the Tylopilus species.

This book illustrates the importance and significance of the biosurfactants obtained from microorganisms, preferably from bacteria and yeast.

This book puts together all aspects of valorization of vegetable and fruit wastes (VFWs) into different biocommodities and platform chemicals using fermentation and non-fermentation processes.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of cold plasma technology for tackling the various food-related hazards in a wide range of food sectors.

The book highlights the importance of prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics in the signalling mechanism between gut microbiota and brain, also referred to as the gut-brain axis.

Millets are small-grained, annual, warm weather cereal.

This book presents fundamental and practical information on food chemistry.

The book introduces the definition, classification, source and structure of hydrocolloids and provides a comprehensive description of their functionalities and food-related applications.

This book covers all aspects of probiotic bacteria and their metabolites, as well as their role and significance in human and animal health.

Combined fields of Microbiology and Nanotechnology have been most successful in providing novel solutions for protecting the health of humans and environment.

This book discusses one of the biggest challenges of the food industry, which is waste management.

Developments such as the demand for minimally-processed foods have placed a renewed emphasis on good hygienic practices in the food industry.

This book provides knowledge of the basic theory, spectral analysis methods, chemometrics, instrumentation, and applications of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy-not as a handbook but rather as a sourcebook of NIR spectroscopy.

The book focuses on the current research of the relation between protein phosphorylation and meat quality, reviews the influence mechanism of protein phosphorylation on meat quality, and summarizes the improvement of meat quality by regulating protein phosphorylation.

The book provides comprehensive information about the different aspects of veterinary nutrition in tropical countries.

This book is dedicated to present different aspects of reproductive physiology and molecular endocrinology of commercially important as well as potential aquaculture fish species.

This informative book focuses on the nutritional value of potatoes and ways to improve it.

This book covers the nutritional and nutraceutical profiles of a wide range of popularly consumed vegetables and nuts.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the antioxidant value of widely consumed fruits.

This book compiles the latest applications of the cutting-edge gene editing tool CRISPR/Cas in the area of crop improvement.