Books in the Food Analysis & Properties series

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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