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This book explores the potential and recent advances in noninvasive food analysis techniques used to ensure food quality and safety. Such cost-reducing and time-saving non-destructive food analysis techniques covered include, Infrared, Raman Spectroscopy, and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. The book also covers data processing and modelling.

The trend in vinegar production is to fuse traditional techniques with state-of-the-art technologies to increase fermentation efficiency.This book reports on all the recent innovations, and compares them to traditional systems. It also reviews new trends on raw materials, substrate pretreatment strategies, fermentation, and acetitification systems.

This book provides an overview of the most recent advances made on the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology that significantly influenced the food industry. It provides a multidisciplinary review of the complex mechanisms involved in the research, development, production and legislation of food containing nanostructures systems.

This book provides comprehensive updates on several novel process technologies used by the seafood industry and highlights their effects on product quality and safety of the treated seafood. In addition, two chapters focus on the development of safe, effective natural antimicrobials and additives used to replace synthetic alternatives.

The properties of modern membrane technology make it suitable for applications in the food industry. This book presents the principles and applications of these techniques. It also covers characteristics of membrane separation processes, mass transfer membrane processes, and concentration polarization.

Food Nanotechnology: Principles and Applications presents the latest data on all aspects of applications of nanotechnology in food systems. With its practical focus on the fabrication and application of nanotechnology in food, it is a valuable resource for students, researchers, food process engineers.

The postharvest handling of fresh fruits and vegetables plays a critical role in facilitating a continuous supply of high-quality fresh produce to the consumer. Many new technologies developed and refined in recent years continue to make possible an ever-expanding supply of fresh products. This volume examines a range of recently developed technologies and systems that will help the horticulture industry to become more environmentally sustainable and economically competitive, and to minimize postharvest quality loss and generate products that are appealing and acceptable to consumers.

Thermal processing remains one of the most important processes in the food industry. Now in its second edition, this volume continues to explore the latest developments in the field. Topics discussed include thermal properties of foods, heat and mass transfer, deterministic heat transfer models for predicting internal product temperatures, and modeling thermal processing using artificial neural networks (ANN) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). It also explores thermal processing of various foods, the effect of ultrahigh temperature (UHT) treatment processing on milk, and ohmic, radio frequency (RF) dialectric, infrared, and pressure-assisted heating.

To meet the demands for high-quality, long-shelf-life fruits and fruit products, new processing technologies are under investigation and development. Presenting a blend of classical and emerging technologies, this volume explores a range of processing methods. Using a series of case studies, it discusses the effect of processing on sensory characteristics and nutritional value and explores new trends in modified atmosphere packaging. It also examines the use of fruit juices as a vehicle for probiotic microorganisms and prebiotic oligosaccharides as an alternative for dairy products.

A comprehensive resource providing clear descriptions of the latest extraction methods and instruments used in food laboratories, this book begins with an overview of solvent extraction technology. It examines pulsed electric fields, diffusion processes, and electrical discharge processes in the extraction of biocompounds. It describes conventional and innovative techniques for the intensification of extractions from food and natural products, and reviews recent developments in supercritical CO2 extraction of food and food products. It also examines the pressurized hot water extraction (PHWE) process and discusses essential oil extraction, among other topics.

Introducing state-of-the-art technology and emerging systems for the quantitative evaluation and definite measurement of food quality and safety, this book begins with a review of the concept and scope of food quality parameters such as color, texture, chemical compositions, and flavor. Each chapter deals with a specific system for quality parameters describing the principles related to each and its applications to foods. Coverage includes artificial intelligence systems for sensory evaluation, as well as computer vision; NIR, NMR and MRI; sonic and ultrasonic systems; multi-spectral and hyper-spectral imaging systems; electronic nose; biosensors; and the use of nanotechnology.

Many factors are relevant in making the proper choice of food packaging material, including those related to shelf life and biodegradability. To meet these demands, new processing and preservation techniques have arisen, most notably modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) and active packaging (AP). This volume presents an overview of the current status of MAP and AP, exploring techniques, methodologies, applications, and relevant legislation. The book examines gases and machinery for MAP, safety and quality control, and applications in foods of plant and animal origin. It also reviews new trends in AP, consumer behavior, sensory analysis, and relevant legislation

The final quality of a food product is impacted heavily by preservation technologies¿such as chilling, freezing, and freeze-drying¿as well as the pretreatments that are routinely applied to foods. This volume explores issues involved in heat and mass transfer in food refrigeration and examines other operations applied to chilled or frozen foods. Each chapter can serve as a standalone resource for the particular topic, and the book¿s case studies can be used for developing processes or in teaching applications. Processors, researchers, and educators in the food industry will find this volume to be an invaluable reference for a host of food operations.

This book provides a source of critical and readily accessible information on modern techniques for measuring physical parameters affecting food quality and food characterization. The text presents principles and measurement techniques, highlighting the latest quick, low-cost methods and their ability to replace the traditional costly, time-consuming ones. It covers the application of techniques based on a variety of technologies that can be used to classify and differentiate various foods, including fruits, vegetables, cereals, dairy, and meat products.

The ability to provide quality juices that contain proper vitamins and nutritional components strongly depends on the processes fruits undergo during the various stages of industrial manufacturing. New technologies have been developed to help ensure the production of quality juices without neglecting safety. Covering both new approaches to traditional issues and innovative processes, Juice Processing: Quality, Safety and Value-Added Opportunities addresses various aspects of fruit juice processing and other issues related to the use of by-products generated in this industry.The book begins with a chapter highlighting the importance of the fruit juice sector and describing the general process of fruit juice manufacturing. The text explores current trends in juice production, reviews the main superfruits, and discusses methods for using juice waste by-products, presenting citrus and grape juice as examples. The book covers assessing juice quality and authenticity, and how to evaluate fruit properties using the principles of rheology as well as examining sensory attributes. It also examines alternative techniques for improving fruit juice quality, including both thermal and nonthermal emerging technologies, their fundamentals, and their main effects on important features of fruit juices.Emphasizing product quality, safety, and nutrition, the chapter on juice packaging summarizes the materials, techniques, and technologies currently used as well as novel packaging for increasing shelf life and decreasing environmental impact. The authors address issues concerning spoiling microorganisms and biological and chemical hazards. They also examine public and private standards and regulations, which need to be reworked to keep up with todayΓÇÖs food-related concerns.

This book details the latest developments in sensing technology and its application in food industry. It explores the opportunities created by the chemical and biosensing technology and improvements performed in recent years for better food quality, better food safety, better food processing and control, and better input for food industry. The chapters in this book have been divided into three sections: basic principles of chemical and biosensing technology, biosensors for food processing and control, and biosensors for food safety.

This book describes the state-of-the-art technology and brings together aspects from physical chemistry, fluid mechanics, and chemical engineering. These aspects are the foundation needed for understanding emulsification at more than a rudimentary level. This is the first comprehensive treatment of emulsification including state-of-the art developments and integration of all three aspects available in English. The book¿s perspective is that of the unit emulsification process, using fundamental theory from different fields to discuss design and function of different emulsification techniques.

Advances in Heat Transfer Unit Operations: Baking and Freezing in Bread Making explains the latest understanding of heat transfer phenomena involved in the baking and freezing of bread and describes the most recent advanced techniques used to produce higher quality bread with a longer shelf life. Heat transfer phenomena occur during key bread-making stages in which temperature and amount of heat transfer must be carefully controlled. This book combines the engineering and technological aspects of heat transfer operations and discusses how these operations interact with the bread making process; the book also discusses how baking and freezing influence the product quality.