1st Edition
Nutraceutical and Specialty Lipids and their Co-Products
Edited By Fereidoon Shahidi
Copyright 2006
580 Pages
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CRC Press
578 Pages
by
CRC Press
584 Pages
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CRC Press
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While certain saturated and trans fats continue to face scrutiny as health hazards, new evidence indicates that, in addition to supplying foods with flavor and texture, fats also provide us with dietary components that are absolutely critical to our well-being. The importance of essential fatty acids and fat-soluble vitamins and other minor components delivered by lipids is well known, as are... Read more
Nutraceutical and Specialty Lipids. Medium Chain Triacylglycerols. Cereal Grain Oils. Fruit Seed Oils. Minor Specialty Oils. Sphingolipids. Modification and Purification of Sphinogolipids and Gangliosides. Hydroxy Fatty Acids. Tree Nuts, Oils, and By-Products: Compositional Characteristics and Nutraceutical Applications. Gamma-Linolenic Acid (GLA). Diacylglycerols (DAG) and their Mode of Action. Conjugated Linoleic Acids (CLA): Food, Nutrition, and Health. Occurrence of Conjugated Fatty Acids in Aquatic and Terrestrial Plants and their Physiological Effects. Marine Conjugated Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids. Marine Oils: Compositional Characteristics and Health Effects. Single Cell Oils as Sources of Nutraceutical and Specialty Lipids: Processing Technologies and Applications. Emulsions: Formation, Stability, and Applications. Lipid Emulsions for Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) Use and as Carriers for Lipid Soluble Drugs. Modified Oils. Fat Replacers: Mimetics and Substitutes. Application of Functional Lipids in Foods. Application of Multi-Step Reactions with Lipases to Oil and Fat Industry. Structure Related Effects on Absorption and Metabolism of Nutraceutical and Specialty Lipids. Lipid Oxidation in Specialty Oils. Trans Fatty Acids in Specialty Lipids. Tocopherols and Tocotrienols as By-Products of Edible Oil Processing Vitamin E: A New Perspective. Plant Sterols and Steryl Esters in Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals. Phospholipids/Lecithin: A Class of Nutraceutical Lipids. Centrifugal Partition Chromatography (CPC) as a new Tool for Preparative-Scale Purification of Lipid and Related Compounds. Oilseed Medicinals: Applications in Drugs and Functional Foods.
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Fereidoon Shahidi
