Bücher der Reihe Food Analysis & Properties

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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.