Food Processing and Nutrition elucidates the relationship between food processing and nutrition, particularly, the properties of nutrients, effects of different processes, commodities, and the addition of nutrients. This book will be valuable to those who require a general outline of the subject and specific and detailed information about a particular product or process.
Nutritional Evaluation of Food Processing
Dramatic changes in the attitudes toward human nutrition have taken place dur ing the past decade.
There are chapters on processes such as thermal processing, frying, freezing, packaging and irradiation. The book also covers newer processes such as microwave processing, ohmic heating and high pressure processing.
Widely regarded as a standard work in its field, this book introduces the range of processing techniques that are used in food manufacturing.
After two introductory chapters, the book discusses sources of proteins, examining the caseins, whey, muscle and soy proteins, and proteins from oil-producing plants, cereals and seaweed.
This is the only book to assess the impact of nutritional science on food manufacture, technology, and product development.
In addition to covering food processing principles that have long been essential to food quality and safety, this edition of Food Processing: Principles and Applications, unlike the former edition, covers microbial/enzyme inactivation ...
The book examines the different aspects of fats and oils processing, how the nutritional properties are affected, and how fats interact with other components and nutrients in food products.
These are followed by a sequence of chapters on hygienic equipment design, including construction materials, piping systems, designing for cleaning in place and methods for verifying and certifying hygienic design.
This book is an invaluable introduction to the physical properties of foods and the physics involved in food processing.