1st Edition

Advances in Technologies for Producing Food-relevant Polyphenols

    351 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    The growing concern for human wellbeing has generated an increase in the demand for polyphenols, secondary plant metabolites that exhibit different bioactive properties. This increasing demand is mainly due to the current applications in the food industry where polyphenols are considered essential for human health and nutrition.

    Advances in Technologies for Producing Food-relevant Polyphenols provides researchers, scientists, engineers, and professionals involved in the food industry with the latest methodologies and equipment useful to extract, isolate, purify, and analyze polyphenols from different available sources, such as herbs, flora, vegetables, fruits, and agro-industrial wastes. Technologies currently used to add polyphenols to diverse food matrices are also included.

    This book serves a reference to design and scale-up processes to obtain polyphenols from different plant sources and to produce polyphenol-rich foods with bioactive properties (e.g. antioxidant, antibacterial, antiviral, anticancer properties) of interest for human health and wellbeing.

    Polyphenols: sources and main characteristics
    Hernán Speisky, Jocelyn Fuentes,, Eva Dorta and Camilo López-Alarcón

    Key aspects of polyphenols and health: metabolic fate, mechanisms of action and influence on gut microbiota
    Josep Lluís Torres, Sara Ramos-Romero and Jara Pérez-Jiménez

    Solid-liquid extraction of polyphenols at low pressure
    Eduardo Caballero-Valdés, Araceli Olivares-Miralles, Carmen Soto-Maldonado and María Elvira Zúñiga-Hansen

    Extraction of polyphenols by pressurized liquids
    José Rodrigo Vergara-Salinas, José Cuevas-Valenzuela and José R. Pérez-Correa

    Supercritical fluid extraction of polyphenols
    José M. del Valle, Edgar Uquiche and Loreto Valenzuela

    Analysis and characterization of polyphenol extracts
    Sonia Guadalupe Sáyago-Ayerdi, Gilberto Mercado-Mercado, Sara Ramos-Romero, Josep Lluís Torres and Jara Pérez-Jiménez

    Purification of polyphenolic extracts from natural sources: adsorption and membrane technologies
    María Parada, María Luisa Soto, Beatriz Díaz-Reinoso, Elena M. Balboa, Andrés Moure, Enma Conde, Herminia Domínguez and Juan Carlos Parajó

    Fractionation of polyphenols
    Peter Winterhalter and Ulrich H. Engelhardt

    Drying and preservation of polyphenols
    Paz Robert, Paula García and Carolina Fredes

    Inclusion of polyphenols into food matrixes
    Verónica Dueik and Pedro Bouchon

    Biography

    Jose Cuevas Valenzuela, Jose Rodrigo Vergara-Salinas, Jose Ricrado Perez-Correa