Wheat - An Exceptional Crop: Botanical Features, Chemistry, Utilization, Nutritional and Health Aspects - Softcover

Wieser Ph.D., Herbert; Koehler, Peter; Scherf, Katharina A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128217154 ISBN 13: 9780128217153

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing and AACC International Press, 2020

Synopsis

Wheat - An Exceptional Crop: Botanical Features, Chemistry, Utilization, Nutritional and Health Aspects presents the exceptional position of wheat among food crops. The book demonstrates the benefits and drawbacks of wheat from a wheat science, nutrition and technology perspective. Organized into 13 chapters, chapters 1 - 3 present a basic overview of wheat; chapters 4 - 6 explore the overall benefits of wheat for the general population, and chapters 7 - 13 assess wheat-related disorders that affect a small portion of the population.

Wheat - An Exceptional Crop: Botanical Features, Chemistry, Utilization, Nutritional and Health Aspects is an exceptional reference for those working in and researching the fields of agronomy, food chemistry, food technology, nutrition, allergology and gastroenterology.

• Explores the botanical features of wheat, chemical composition of wheat grains, and the cultivation and milling of wheat
• Highlights wheat-based food and feed, wheat-based raw materials, and the nutritional value of wheat
• Discusses principles of wheat hypersensitivities and various wheat-related disorders

About this title

About the Authors

Herbert Wieser studied food chemistry at the University of Munich and completed his M.S. in 1970. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in food chemistry in 1974 from the Technical University of Munich. In 1973, he joined the German Research Center for Food Chemistry and was member, head and scientific advisor of the working group “structure/function relationships of biopolymers” until his retirement in 2017. Herbert Wieser´s major research interest focused on the chemistry of cereal proteins, in particular of gluten proteins, and structure/function relationships of these proteins. He had a special interest in celiac disease with focus on toxic protein structures. He published 330 original scientific papers and book contributions. He was awarded the Max-Rubner Award of the German Nutrition Society in 1984, the Osborne Medal of the AACC International in 2007, and the Neumann Medal of the German Association of Cereal Research in 2009.

Peter Koehler is currently chairman of the Working Group on Prolamin Analysis and Toxicity and scientific advisor of the German Celiac Society. His research on celiac disease is focused on gluten analysis and gluten detoxification by means of enzymes.

Katharina A. Scherf leads the Department of Bioactive and Functional Food Chemistry at the Institute of Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. Having studied food chemistry, she obtained her PhD degree from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and was a research group leader at the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the TUM. She was awarded with several scientific prizes including the Young Scientist Research Award of the Cereals & Grains Association in 2018 and the Research Award of the German Coeliac Society in 2014 and 2019.

Edition details

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing and AACC International Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128217154
• ISBN 13: 9780128217153
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 329