Food Industry Science category: 1675 books
Inflammation, Advancing Age and Nutrition
Research and Clinical Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The book provides a comprehensive overview to understanding the integrated impact of the concepts of cellular and molecular aspects, models, environmental factors, and lifestyle involved in premature aging. Additionally, it examines how functional food, dietary nutraceuticals or pharmacological compounds...
Indian Spices
The Legacy, Production and Processing of India’s Treasured Export
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This work comprehensively covers the production, processing and post harvest technology of Indian spices with an added focus on the history and uniqueness of this legendary regional product. Individual chapters describe the unique aspects of these spices and their production, post harvest technology...
by Hilton C. Deeth, Michael J. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This book covers many aspects of thermal processing of milk and milk products with particular focus on UHT processing. It commences with an overview of the major thermal processing technologies: thermisation, pasteurisation, extended-shelf-life (ESL), UHT and in-container sterilisation. It discusses...
by Didier Fontanel
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Here, the author has compiled data on about 550 oil-bearing plant species with respect to their content of unsaponifiable matters and oils. This unique information resource offers important information for research and development of food products such as neutraceuticals as well as cosmetics. Unsaponifiable...
Fruit and Vegetable Storage
Hypobaric, Hyperbaric and Controlled Atmosphere
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This Brief reviews the effects of increasing and reducing atmospheric pressure on the postharvest life of fruit and vegetables. The text covers the common methods and technologies used and evaluates the history and benefits of hypobaric and hyperbaric storage. Both of these techniques have the potential...
Marine Medicinal Foods
Implications and Applications, Macro and Microalgae
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
This volume on medicinal foods from the sea narrates the bioactive principles of various marine floral (vertebrate and Invertebrate), faunal (Macro and Micro algal) and microbial sources. Contributions from eminent scientists worldwide explain about the latest advance implications in the development...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
This comprehensive volume focuses on anti-inflammatory nutraceuticals and their role in various chronic diseases. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs such as steroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), statins and metformin have been shown to modulate inflammatory pathways,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Microalgae in Health and Disease Prevention is a comprehensive reference that addresses the historical and potential use of microalgae, its extracts, secondary metabolites, and molecular constituents for enhancing human health and preventing diseases. Each chapter features an overview, and the book...
Marine Medicinal Foods
Implications and Applications: Animals and Microbes
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
This volume on medicinal foods from the sea narrates the bioactive principles of various marine floral (vertebrate and Invertebrate), faunal (Macro and Micro algal) and microbial sources. Contributions from eminent scientists worldwide explain about the latest advance implications in the development...
Hen Eggs
Basic and Applied Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The egg is a chemical storehouse-within an incubating egg a complicated set of chemical reactions take place that convert the chemicals into a living animal. Using hen eggs as a model, this new text explores the use of eggs for food, industrial, and pharmaceutical applications. It covers the chemistry,...
Edible Films and Coatings
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The search for better strategies to preserve foods with minimal changes during processing has been of great interest in recent decades. Traditionally, edible films and coatings have been used as a partial barrier to moisture, oxygen, and carbon dioxide through selective permeability to gases, as well...
by Qiang Wang
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This book systematically covers the sensory, physical, chemical nutrition, and processing characteristics of different peanut varieties, while also providing an in-depth review of research advances in peanut processing quality.
The book goes on to examine the relationship between raw materials...
Dietary Supplements
Safety, Efficacy and Quality
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Dietary supplements made from foods, herbs and their constituents are a rapidly growing market sector. Consumers often view food supplements as ‘natural’ and therefore safe; however, supplements are regulated as foods rather than as pharmaceuticals and so are not as closely monitored as may be...
Fermented Foods, Part II
Technological Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
This book reviews the use of fermentation to develop healthy and functional foods and beverages, and the commercialization of some of the fermented food products through the use of biotechnology The first two sections cover the health and functional benefits of fermented foods and the latter two sections...