The Nutrition Handbook for Food Processors - Couverture rigide

 
9781855734647: The Nutrition Handbook for Food Processors

Synopsis

Since Arnold Benders 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 research in an area as important to the food industry as it is to health-conscious consumers.

Part one provides the foundation for the rest of the book, looking at consumers and nutrition. After a discussion of surveys on what consumers eat, there are two reviews of 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 two 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 is a standard work in its field.

Key Features: summarises key findings on diet and nutrient intake, the impact of nutrients on health, and how food processing operations affect the nutritional quality of foods; examines consumers and nutrition, processing and nutritional quality, and nutritional enhancement of plant foods and meat, among other topics; reviews the wealth of recent research in an area as important to the food industry as it is to health-conscious consumers.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jeya Henry is Professor of Human Nutrition at Oxford Brookes University and a member of the Board of the UK Food Standards Agency. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. Clare Chapman is the Regulatory Affairs Manager at Unilever R & D Colworth. She was formerly Nutrition Manager at United Biscuits (UK) Ltd.

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