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Influence of ultra-processed food in the diet of South Indian young adults: an explanatory mixed method study
PurposeTo determine the contribution of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) to overall macronutrient intake and their association with anthropometric...
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Isochoric Freezing and Its Emerging Applications in Food Preservation
The preservation of foods at low temperatures is a well-established concept. While conventional methods of food freezing rely on the isobaric...
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Neglected and Underutilized Food Plants of India
Climate change and increasing population pressure demands a high amount of food production to ensure food and nutritional security for the world. Now...
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Gluten Free Edible Films, Coatings and Top**s
The growing general consciousness in relation to gluten intolerance has driven the food industry to find alternatives to provide adequate products to...
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Barometric Membrane Technologies for Plant Protein Purification
Proteins, hydrolysates and peptides from both animal and vegetable sources exhibit specific biological activities, which may have effect on...
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The Food Industry
As the obesity epidemic progressed, the food we eat, and the way it is manufactured, changed markedly. The industrial processing of food is...
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Novel Technologies in the Freezing Process and Their Impact on the Quality of Fruits and Vegetables
Fruits and vegetables (F&V) are living tissues that continue to respire after picking, and while this can be controlled by freezing, for the...
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Pulsed Electric Fields-Assisted Drying and Frying of Fresh Zucchini
The objective of this work was to evaluate the potential of Pulsed Electric Field application on the enhancement of air-drying and frying kinetics of...
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Polar Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography Coupled with Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Method for Simple and Rapid Determination of Maleic Hydrazide Residues in some Fruits and Vegetables
Maleic hydrazide (MH) is used as a plant growth regulator, herbicide, and sprouting inhibitor for some crops to improve the growth and the quality of...
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The revised Healthy Purchase Index (r-HPI): a validated tool for exploring the nutritional quality of household food purchases
BackgroundThe Healthy Purchase Index (HPI) assesses the nutritional quality of food purchases (FP) from food group expenditure shares only. However,...
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A novel non-destructive detection of deteriorative dried longan fruits using machine learning algorithms based on low field nuclear magnetic resonance
Internal fungal infection and pest invasion are defects commonly found in dried longan fruits, which cannot be visualized easily without peeling. The...
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Cisgenics and Genome Editing or Second Generation Biotechnologies: A Latin America and Caribbean Perspective
The Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region must acknowledge both the potential of second-generation biotechnologies and the public’s deep mistrust...
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Food Additives
Food additives are added to foods to achieve technological functions but some are incidental compounds. The aim of this chapter is to introduce...
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Vacuum Impregnation Process and Its Potential in Modifying Sensory, Physicochemical and Nutritive Characteristics of Food Products
The augmented promotion and consumer awareness of healthy eating and lifestyle have resulted in extensive growth of the functional food market in...
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Primary Keys and Miscellaneous Fungi
Principles underlying fungal classification have been outlined in Chap. 3 , including a brief overview of the...
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Enzyme
Enzymes are the biocatalysts that have the characteristics of strong specificity, high catalytic efficiency, and mild action conditions compared with...
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Acoustic Emission and Near-Infra Red Imaging Methods for Nondestructive Apple Quality Detection and Classification
The need to develop nondestructive techniques in the Agrifood industry is becoming more apparent because of the increasing difficulty of securing...
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A Review of Challenges and Solutions of Biofilm Formation of Escherichia coli: Conventional and Novel Methods of Prevention and Control
E. coli is a virulent and opportunistic pathogen with the ability of antibiotic-resistant. In general, E. coli can form the biofilm on food,...
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Factors Affecting Bruise Damage Susceptibility of Fresh Produce
The acknowledgment of an increasing global demand for high quality in fruits and vegetables has grown in recent years. Nevertheless, evidence of...
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Molecules Determine Our Food
From the beginning of the universe, through the formation of atoms and molecules, from the first self-organized cells to today’s complex biosystems,...