Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals
About the Book Series
The Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals Series provides timely and comprehensive information on the emerging science, technology, and processing of functional foods and nutraceuticals. It also covers traditional health-foods from around the world, which have been showing to play an active role in preventing or delaying the onset of diseases, especially chronic diseases, and keeping people’s health in a normal condition. The series will comprise (i) books on globally known foods of plant and animal origin, (such as dairy, meat, fish, vegetables, cereals, root crops, soya beans, legumes, pickles, starter cultures and probiotic cultures), their manufacture, chemical and microbiological composition, processing, compositional and functional modifications taking place as a result of microbial and enzymic effects, their safety, legislation, development of novel products, and opportunities for industrialization, (ii) books providing information on the traditional health-food from Africa, Asia (South, East, and South-East), Europe, Latin America, and Middle East, their traditional and industrialized processes and their contribution to human health, and (iii) books covering several aspects of general interest such as processing of food by-products, biotechnology, engineering of solid-state processes, modern chemical and biological analytical approaches, safety, health and consumer perception. The books will be aimed at professional food scientists, academicians researching food engineering problems, and graduate level students.
Functional Food Ingredients and Nutraceuticals: Processing Technologies, Second Edition
2nd Edition
Edited
By John Shi
October 23, 2015
The second edition of a bestseller, Functional Food Ingredients and Nutraceuticals: Processing Technologies covers new and innovative technologies for the processing of functional foods and nutraceuticals that show potential for academic use and broad industrial applications. The book includes a ...
Marine Products for Healthcare: Functional and Bioactive Nutraceutical Compounds from the Ocean
1st Edition
By Vazhiyil Venugopal
October 20, 2008
Considered Mother Nature’s medicine cabinet in many areas of the world, marine organisms have been known from time immemorial to possess curative powers. But until recently, their bioactive compounds, nutraceutical properties, and commercial potential remained undiscovered. Bringing together widely...
Handbook of Fermented Functional Foods
2nd Edition
Edited
By Edward R.(Ted) Farnworth
May 28, 2008
For centuries, people around the world have used fermentation to preserve and enhance the flavor of a wide variety of foods. Today, complex interactions of microbiota in the digestive tract are found to influence proper digestion, metabolism, and disease resistance. With greater emphasis on natural...
Handbook of Functional Lipids
1st Edition
Edited
By Casimir C. Akoh
July 18, 2005
Consumer demand is creating rapid growth in the functional foods market - a market soon to reach $20 billion worldwide. As a result, the food industry has stepped up the development of functional lipids. These lipids impart health benefits when consumed and also impact food product functionalities....
Handbook of Functional Dairy Products
1st Edition
Edited
By Colette Shortt, John O'Brien
November 24, 2003
Functional dairy products have been the focus of intense research and product development over the last two decades. At last, this valuable information has been compiled into one resource that reveals key advances in functional dairy ingredients and products and identifies directions for marketing ...
Functional Foods: Biochemical and Processing Aspects, Volume 2
1st Edition
Edited
By John Shi, Giuseppe Mazza, Marc Le Maguer
February 27, 2002
Building upon the success of the bestselling first volume, Functional Foods: Biochemical and Processing Aspects, Volume II explores new sources of nutraceutical and functional food ingredients and addresses crucial issues for product development and processing. It presents the latest developments ...