Analyzing Food for Nutrition Labeling and Hazardous Contaminants

Analyzing Food for Nutrition Labeling and Hazardous Contaminants
Author: Ike Jeon
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2020-08-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1000148408

This work provides up-to-date information on the various analytical procedures involved in both nutrition labelling and the identification and quantitation of hazardous chemicals in foods. It assesses the relative strengths of traditional and modern analysis techniques. The book covers all mandatory dietary components and many optional nutritients specified by the new labelling regulations of the Food and Drug Administration and the US Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service.

Physical Chemistry of Foods

Physical Chemistry of Foods
Author: Pieter Walstra
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 834
Release: 2002-10-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780203910436

Exploring the structure and physical and chemical properties of solutions, dispersions, soft solids, fats, and cellular systems, Physical Chemistry of Foods describes the physiochemical principles of the reactions and conversions that occur during the manufacture, handling, and storage of foods. Coverage progresses from aspects of thermodynamics, bonds and interaction forces, and reaction kinetics, to transport phenomena, polymers, colloidal interactions, nucleation, glass transitions and freezing, and soft solids. This comprehensive volume effectively clarifies the physicochemical processes encountered in food product development.

Food Processing Operations Modeling

Food Processing Operations Modeling
Author: Joseph M. Irudayaraj
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2001-02-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0824745167

A comprehensive survey of thermal processing and modelling techniques in food process engineering. It combines theory and practice to solve actual problems in the food processing industry - emphasizing heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, electromagnetics, stochastic processes, and neural network analysis in food systems. There are specific case studies with over 350 numerical and computational equations and solutions.

Nondestructive Food Evaluation

Nondestructive Food Evaluation
Author: Sundaram Gunasekaran
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2000-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780824704537

This volume illustrates significant changes in optical, magnetic, ultrasonic, mechanical and biological nondestructive evaluation techniques for online automatic control of food quality evaluation, including X-ray tomography. It presents advances in computer vision, X-ray imaging, ultrasonics, biosensors, and data analysis.

Handbook of Cereal Science and Technology, Revised and Expanded

Handbook of Cereal Science and Technology, Revised and Expanded
Author: Karel Kulp
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 807
Release: 2000-03-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1420027220

This thoroughly revised second edition addresses the full spectrum of cereal grain science, employing agronomic, chemical, and technological perspectives and providing new and expanded treatment of food enrichment techniques, nutritional standards, and product quality evaluation. Written by over 40 internationally respected authorities, the

Handbook of Vegetable Science and Technology

Handbook of Vegetable Science and Technology
Author: D. K. Salunkhe
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 740
Release: 1998-03-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1482269872

"Furnishes exhaustive, single-source coverage of the production and postharvest technology of more than 70 major and minor vegetables grown in tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions throughout the world. Provides comparative data for each vegetable presented. "

Milk and Dairy Product Technology

Milk and Dairy Product Technology
Author: Edgar Spreer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2017-10-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351431366

Addressing both theoretical and practical issues in dairy technology, this work offers coverage of the basic knowledge and scientific advances in the production of milk and milk-based products. It examines energy supply and electricity refrigeration, water and waste-water treatment, cleaning and disinfection, hygiene, and occupational safety in dairies.

Food Additives

Food Additives
Author: A. Larry Branen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1058
Release: 2001-11-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0824741706

Offering over 2000 useful references and more than 200 helpful tables, equations, drawings, and photographs, this book presents research on food phosphates, commercial starches, antibrowning agents, essential fatty acids, and fat substitutes, as well as studies on consumer perceptions of food additives. With contributions from nearly 50 leading international authorities, the Second Edition of Food Additives details food additives for special dietary needs, contemporary studies on the role of food additives in learning, sleep, and behavioral problems in children, safety and regulatory requirements in the U.S. and the European Union, and methods to determine hypersensitivity.

Genetic Variation in Taste Sensitivity

Genetic Variation in Taste Sensitivity
Author: John Prescott
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2004-02-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780203023433

Featuring results presented at the Sensitivity to PROP (6-n-propylthiouracil) symposium held as a satellite to the European Chemosensory Research Organisation conference in Erlangen, Germany, this volume's field-shaping selections review all sides of PROP sensitivity measurement-from its descriptive worth with regard to sensory experiences, individual taste perceptions, and food choices to its predictive power in the nutrition and public health arenas. Written by recognized names from industry and academia, Genetic Variation in Taste Sensitivity is ideal for taste, olfaction, and flavor chemists and scientists; sensory evaluation chemists and scientists; and nutritionists.

Green Tea

Green Tea
Author: Yukihiko Hara
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2001-02-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 082474229X

A comprehensive overview of the inherent properties, chemical and biochemical functions, actions for lowering the risks of cardiovascular and infectious diseases and cancers, and underlying mechanisms of tea polyphenols. It reveals the bioantimutagenic potency of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCg) found in green tea.