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This book discusses the application of chiral chromatography in monitoring and characterization of chiral organic pollutants in food and the environment. Discussions on the environmental behavior--biodegradation, chiral inversion, adsorption--and toxicity provides valuable information on the risks to the food supply posed by chiral pollutants.

This book explains how today's single sample research will generate thousands of data points, which are loaded into sophisticated statistical analysis algorithms to establish what stimuli are responsible for flavor.

Flow Injection Analysis of Food Additives gives you the tools you need to analyze food and beverage additives using FIA. This sets it apart from other books that simply focus on the theoretical basis and principles of FIA or on the design of equipment, instrumentation, manifold, and setting mechanism. Truly unprecedented in its scope, this book represents the work of 80 authors from 14 countries who combine efforts to give you the first review on measurements of additives and other substances by FIA in relation to the use of additives in food.The book consists of ten sections. The first section provides an introduction to the topic and reviews the origin of FIA, including recent developments and future trends. The next six sections discuss the determination of additives. These sections are divided based on the official classification of additives according to function by the EU. In the final three sections, you will find a review of the determination of antioxidant capacity, antimicrobial effects, and acidity by FIA.All chapters are organized in the same way: The first part begins with a small introduction in relation to the importance of the additive or compound in foods and beverages and discusses the legislation affecting their use and control. The second part focuses on the determination of the compound or additive by FIA in different foods or beverages, with sample preparation and extraction from a food/beverage on the one hand and FIA methods used for the separation and detection on the other.

This book provides in-depth information and comprehensive discussion over different analytical techniques utilized for qualitative and quantitative application purposes of natural toxins of plant origin in food.

This book presents a comprehensive overview and novel insights of omics tools for nutrition-based studies. It focuses on practices of nutrigenomics, nutriproteomics, nutritranscriptomics, nutrimetabolomics and nutrimetabonomics.

This book presents a comprehensive overview and novel insights of omics tools for nutrition-based studies. It focuses on practices of nutrigenomics, nutriproteomics, nutritranscriptomics, nutrimetabolomics and nutrimetabonomics.

This book delves into how bioactive peptides play a major role in the development of various functional foods. Numerous bioactive peptides have been reported in recent years as naturally present or generated from food proteins of different origins like milk, eggs, soya, fish, and meat.

This book contains an introductory section that explains the basics of MS and the difference between targeted and un-targeted strategies for beginners. Further, it points out new analytical challenges, such as monitoring contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), and presents innovative techniques, e.g., ambient ionization MS and data mining.

Flow Injection Analysis of Food Additives gives you the tools you need to analyze food and beverage additives using FIA. This sets it apart from other books that simply focus on the theoretical basis and principles of FIA or on the design of equipment, instrumentation, manifold, and setting mechanism. Truly unprecedented in its scope, this book represents the work of 80 authors from 14 countries who combine efforts to give you the first review on measurements of additives and other substances by FIA in relation to the use of additives in food.The book consists of ten sections. The first section provides an introduction to the topic and reviews the origin of FIA, including recent developments and future trends. The next six sections discuss the determination of additives. These sections are divided based on the official classification of additives according to function by the EU. In the final three sections, you will find a review of the determination of antioxidant capacity, antimicrobial effects, and acidity by FIA.All chapters are organized in the same way: The first part begins with a small introduction in relation to the importance of the additive or compound in foods and beverages and discusses the legislation affecting their use and control. The second part focuses on the determination of the compound or additive by FIA in different foods or beverages, with sample preparation and extraction from a food/beverage on the one hand and FIA methods used for the separation and detection on the other.

This book reviews several practices in that NGS contributes to foodborne pathogens functional characterization, management and control. This book focuses on potential uses of sequencing technologies in microbial food safety and quality, also highlighting present challenges in the food industry.

Analyzing the spatial distribution of food compounds using conventional technology is difficult. This book shows why the novel use of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) will be ideal. MALDI-MS technology can detect compounds in a tissue section without extraction, purification, separation, or labeling.

The ever-increasing use of plastics has created areas of floating plastic waste in the oceans. Nanoplastics and microplastics have made their way into food, particularly marine organisms This book describes the fate of microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment and discusses sampling and analysis methods to detect and identify them.

Of the five senses, smell is the most direct and food aromas are the key drivers of our flavor experience. They are crucial for the synergy of food and drinks. Up to 80% of what we call taste is actually aroma. This book deals with how food aromas are developed and affected during food processing, cooking, and aging.

Ambient Mass Spectroscopy Techniques in Food and the Environment provides insight to professionals practicing in food and the environment, including food scientists, food engineers, food biotechnologists, chemical engineers, and those working in research labs, universities, and government regulatory agencies.

This book explores issues associated with the development, analysis, and application of essential image processing algorithms. It outlines strategies and essential image processing routines needed for making the appropriate decision during detection, classification, identification, quantification and/or prediction processes.

Phenolic compounds, one of the most widely distributed groups of secondary metabolites in plants, have received a lot of attention in the last few years since the consumption of vegetables and beverages with a high level of such compounds may reduce risks of the development of several diseases. This is partially due to their antioxidant power since other interactions with cell functions have been discovered. What''s more, phenolic compounds are involved in many functions in plants, such as sensorial properties, structure, pollination, resistance to pests and predators, germination, processes of seed, development, and reproduction. Phenolic compounds can be classified in different ways, ranging from simple molecules to highly polymerized compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food: Characterization and Analysis deals with all aspects of phenolic compounds in food. In five sections, the 21 chapters of this book address the classification and occurrence of phenolic compounds in nature and foodstuffs; discuss all major aspects of analysis of phenolic compounds in foods, such as extraction, clean-up, separation, and detection; detail specific analysis methods of a number of classes of phenolic compounds, from simple molecules to complex compounds; describe the antioxidant power of phenolic compounds; and discuss specific analysis methods in different foodstuffs.

This book describes the techniques and instruments to detect, identify, and quantify GM ingredients in foods and feed.

This book investigates the current multi-element analytical techniques that are used for determining the geographical origin of food products, discussing the principles of the techniques together with their advantages and drawbacks, and reported applications concerning geographical authenticity.

Given the complexity of food products, most instrumental techniques employed for quality and authenticity evaluation are time demanding, expensive and involve a lot of manual labor. Therefore, there has been an increasing interest in simpler, faster and reliable methods for analyzing food quality attributes.

Lately proteomics is being applied to different areas within food technology. Since proteins can be used as markers for many properties of a food, even indicating the processes used, they can provide evidence of the food's labeling claim. This book is an overview of the applications, drawbacks, and advantages, of proteomics for food authentication.