While most wine and spirits books focus on vineyard and crop management or fermentation and distillation processes, few address critical post-process aspects of stabilization, aging, and spoilage. This book is dedicated to the post-fermentation and distillation technology applied to wine, beer,…
Hardback – 2018-01-24
CRC Press
This book examines the whole range of modern packaging options. It covers edible packaging based on carbohydrates, proteins, antioxidative and antimicrobial packaging, and the chemistry of food and food packaging, such as plasticization and polymer morphology. Issues related to shelf life and…
Hardback – 2017-10-26
CRC Press
This book is arguably the first one focusing on packaging material testing and quality assurance. It provides information to help food scientists, polymer chemists, and packaging technologists find practical solutions to packaging defects and to develop innovative packaging materials for food…
Hardback – 2017-06-14
CRC Press
Determining accurate shelf life data for foods is essential for assuring food quality and protecting consumers from the effects of degradation. With a proper balance of theory and practical examples, Shelf Life Assessment of Food presents the essential criteria and current methodologies for…
Paperback – 2016-11-16
CRC Press
Food Preservation Technology
This new volume presents a selection of recent advances and emerging trends in food process engineering from several disciplines. Exploring the key concepts of food engineering, Food Engineering: Emerging Issues, Modeling, and Applications presents the information in four parts: Modeling in food…
Hardback – 2016-11-09
Apple Academic Press
Innovations in Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Polymer nanotechnology offers exciting benefits to the food industry, including better materials for food packaging and safer foods on supermarket shelves with lower incidences of contamination. Ecosustainable Polymer Nanomaterials for Food Packaging: Innovative Solutions, Characterization Needs,…
Paperback – 2016-10-19
CRC Press
Since the publication of the first edition of this text, ever-increasing coatings research has led to many developments in the field. Updated and completely revised with the latest discoveries, Edible Coatings and Films to Improve Food Quality, Second Edition is a critical resource for all those…
Paperback – 2016-10-17
CRC Press
Many factors are relevant in making the proper choice of food packaging material, including those related to shelf life and biodegradability. To meet these demands, new processing and preservation techniques have arisen, most notably modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) and active packaging (AP).…
Paperback – 2016-10-17
CRC Press
Contemporary Food Engineering
Since publication of the first edition of this book, Aseptic Processing and Packaging of Food, significant changes have taken place in several aseptic processing and packaging areas. These include changes in aseptic filling of nutritional beverages in plastic bottles; the popularity of value-added…
Paperback – 2016-10-12
CRC Press
The final quality of a food product is impacted heavily by preservation technologies, such as chilling, freezing, and freeze-drying, as well as the numerous pretreatments that are routinely applied to foods. Adequate design and implementation of each of these treatments are critical to ensuring the…
Paperback – 2016-10-12
CRC Press
Contemporary Food Engineering
The search for better strategies to preserve foods with minimal changes during processing has been of great interest in recent decades. Traditionally, edible films and coatings have been used as a partial barrier to moisture, oxygen, and carbon dioxide through selective permeability to gases, as…
Hardback – 2016-08-24
CRC Press
Food Preservation Technology
The edible food packaging industry has experienced remarkable growth in recent years and will continue to impact the food market for quite some time going into the future. Edible Food Packaging: Materials and Processing Technologies provides a broad and comprehensive review on recent aspects…
Hardback – 2016-05-18
CRC Press
Contemporary Food Engineering