| Description |
xvii, 483 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Woodhead publishing in food science and technology |
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Woodhead Publishing in food science and technology.
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| Contents |
Part 1 Nutrition and consumers: What consumers eat-- Vitamins-- Minerals-- Measuring intake of nutrients and their effects: the case of copper-- Consumers and nutrition labelling-- New approaches to providing nutritional information. Part 2 Processing and nutritional quality: Nutritional enhancement of plant foods-- Enhancing the nutritional value of meat-- Stability of vitamins during food processing-- Thermal processing and nutritional quality-- Frying-- The processing of cereal foods-- Extrusion cooking-- Freezing-- Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP)-- Irradiation-- Microwave processing-- Ohmic heating-- Infrared processing-- High pressure processing-- Continuous-flow heat processing |
| Summary |
This book brings together an international team of experts to summarise key findings on diet and nutrient intake, the impact of nutrients on health, and how food processing operations affect the nutritional quality of foods. Since Arnold Bender's classic Food processing and nutrition in 1978, there has been no single volume survey of the impact of processing on the nutritional quality of food. With its distinguished editors and international team of contributors, The nutrition handbook for food processors, fills that gap. It summarises the wealth of recent research in an area as important to the food industry as it is to health-conscious consumers. Part 1 provides the foundation for the rest of the book, looking at consumers and nutrition. After a discussion of current surveys on what consumers eat, there are two reviews of the latest research on the contribution of vitamins and minerals to health. Three further chapters discuss how nutrient intake is measured and at how nutrition information is presented to and interpreted by consumers. Part 2 looks at processing and nutritional quality. Two introductory chapters look at raw materials, discussing the nutritional enhancement of plant foods and meat respectively. The remaining chapters review the impact of processing, beginning with a general discussion of the stability of vitamins during processing. 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. Given the unprecedented attention on the impact of processing on the nutritional quality of food, The nutrition handbook for food processors will be widely welcomed as a standard work in its field |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to Knovel |
| Subject |
Nutrition -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Food industry and trade -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Henry, C. J. K.
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Chapman, C. (Clare)
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| LC no. |
2002023438 |
| ISBN |
1855734648 : |
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1855736659 e-book |
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0849315433 CRC Press |
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