Food Science and Nutritional Health: An Introduction

Engineering & Transportation

Labuza, Theodore P.

Engineering

Thomson Learning

Food and Your Well Being

West Group

Providing overview, depth, and expertise, Essentials of Functional Foods is the key resource for all involved in the exciting and rapidly growing arena of functional foods. Every important aspect of functional foods and ingredients is covered, from technology, product groups, and nutrition, to safety, efficacy, and regulation. The editors and their expert contributors emphasize broadly based principles that apply to many functional foods. This book is essential reading for food scientists, researchers, and professionals who are developing, researching, or working with functional foods and ingredients in the food, drug, and dietary supplement industry.

Essentials Of Functional Foods

Science & Math

Schmidl, Mary K.

Biological Sciences

Springer

This manual explains water activity in foods and shows why commonly held ideas about free and bound water are often inaccurate. It demonstrates how moisture sorption isotherms are created and how they are used to solve real-world problems such as the change in rate of moisture gain for individual packaged products over time, or the amount of sugar needed to lower the water activity of a product to make it shelf stable. The authors emphasize the physical chemistry of water in biological systems. For every equation provided they furnish examples from practical experience. These examples will help food scientists understand thermodynamics (equilibrium processes and water activity), dynamics (rate processes such as mass transfer of moisture between ingredients), and structure (weeping, swelling, droplets, and edible barriers). Using this manual will help solve product development problems and improve the quality of the foods brought to the market.

Moisture Sorption: Practical Aspects of Isotherm Measurement and Use

Chemistry

Amer Assn of Cereal Chemists

Shelf-Life Dating of Foods

Technology

Food & Nutrition Pr

Open dating plays a vital role in the distribution of the food products from the farm or place of manufacturing to the consumer's home. One principle is that the shelf life is a function of the distribution conditions and can be looked at as the percentage of consumers a manufacturer is willing to displease. Thus, one purpose of an open date is to give consumers enough time to purchase a food product and store it at home for a reasonable period of time before the product reaches the end of shelf-life in terms of some degree of quality change that is still acceptable.  If products are not stored or rotated properly in distribution, then older products or those of lesser quality and perhaps compromised safety because of abuse during distribution chain and causing loss of confidence in the food category. Presently, the lack of uniformity among manufacturers and across state borders has made the practice of open dating confusing and misleading for consumers, retailers and the government. This book addresses these issues, and provides scientific and legal background to both evaluate and influence federally-regulated open-dating legislation in this country

Open Dating of Foods

Szybist, Lynn M.

Self-Help

Wiley/Blackwell

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