Starch in Food: Structure, Function and Applications (Woodhead's Food Science, Technology and Nutrition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849325552 ISBN 13: 9780849325557

Publisher: CRC Press, 2004

Synopsis

Starch is an important ingredient for the food industry and researchers are making progress in discovering new details about its structure, functionality and impact on our health. Starch in Food reviews starch structure and functionality and the growing range of starch ingredients used to improve the nutritional and sensory quality of food. Starch in Food begins by illustrating how plant starch can be analyzed and modified, with chapters on plant starch synthesis, starch bioengineering, and starch-acting enzymes. It examines the sources of starch, from wheat and potatoes to rice, corn, and tropical supplies. The book looks at modified starches and the stability of frozen foods, starch lipid interactions and starch-based microencapsulation. It covers starch as a functional food, investigating the impact of starch on physical and mental performance, detecting nutritional starch fractions, and analyzing starch digestion. Starch in Food is an authoritative and indispensable reference, edited by a leader in the field with contributions from experts worldwide.

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Review

...a valuable addition to libraries in research, industrial and tertiary organisations. The standard of presentation is very high, being remarkably free from error, and diagrams, figures and tables are well laid out and easy to follow., Food Australia
From the sources of starch through to modification and functional foods, this book covers all you will ever need to know about starch., Food Processing
The handbook comprehensively elucidates the role of starch in human food, accompanied by easy-to-follow tables and excellently illustrated by figures and diagrams., Advances in Food Sciences

About the Author

Ann-Charlotte Eliasson is Head of the Department of Food Technology, Engineering and Nutrition and Professor of Cereal Technology at the University of Lund, Sweden.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0849325552
• ISBN 13: 9780849325557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 605
• Editor: Eliasson Ann-Charlotte