Food Science & Technology

This research anthology explores the concept of food production and supply, from farm gate to plate, bringing together contemporary thinking and research on local, national, and global issues from a stakeholder perspective. A Stakeholder Approach to Managing Food includes a number of sections to rep..

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is the staple food of more than 300 million people in the world. Though cassava is utilized in a variety of ways, scientific books of any category written on the postharvest aspects of cassava are relatively few. The present publication was designed to fill this li..

This review encompasses one segment of food packaging – foods. That include flexible materials in their package. It is intended as a systems view point: designing product requirements and markets, and describing the present material and machine methods for filling those requirements...

This book examines European institutions being ‘put on trial’ for how their regulatory procedures evaluate and regulate genetically-modified products. Levidow highlights how public controversy created a legitimacy crisis, leading to national policy changes and demands, in turn stimulating changes in..

This book examines European institutions being ‘put on trial’ for how their regulatory procedures evaluate and regulate genetically-modified products. Levidow highlights how public controversy created a legitimacy crisis, leading to national policy changes and demands, in turn stimulating changes in..

This handbook provides a systematic overview of the most important naturally occurring food toxicants. It should be of interest to anybody who is concerned with nutritive and health aspects of food. As many of the discussed toxicants can be removed or destroyed by food processing it should be of spe..

This book prompts field scientists to adopt a unified quantitative approach to the study of hydrophobic interactions in food systems. The first part of this monograph reviews the current knowledge on the topic, and the second presents an example of the application of hydrophobic concept...

More foods are now packaged in containers designed for direct cooking or heating, which encourages movement of substances into the foods. Indirect Food Additives and Polymers: Migration and Toxicology is an impressive review of basic regulatory, toxicological, and other scientific information necess..

Providing new opportunities for product development, Ingredient Interactions: Effects on Food Quality examines how major food ingredients such as water, starches, lipids, and proteins interact with other constituents and affect food quality. This second edition considers both real foods and model fo..

This book provides a comprehensive review of published data on the production of various legume-based fermented foods and critically examines their nutritional quality. It consists of 14 chapters where the preparation, composition, nutritional quality, and food safety of individual legume-based ferm..

This comprehensive collection of original research explores the challenges and opportunities associated with market orientation along the food supply chain; from the animal feed industry to meat retailing and from organic foods to old world wines. All the chapters provide exceptional insight into un..

There is an enormous quantity of literature, including numerous patents, on the functions and applications of phosphates in foods...