Food Processing: Principles and Applications

Food Processing: Principles and Applications second edition is the fully revised new edition of this best-selling food technology title. Advances in food processing continue to take place as food scientists and food engineers adapt to the challenges imposed by emerging pathogens, environmental concerns, shelf life, quality and safety, aswell as the dietary needs and demands of humans. In addition to covering food processing principles that have long been essential to food quality and safety, this edition of Food Processing: Principles and Applications, unlike the former e.

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Food Processing: Principles and Applications; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Principles of Food Processing; 1.1 Processing of foods: an introduction; 1.2 Unit operations in food processing; 1.2.1 Heat transfer; 1.2.2 Mass transfer; 1.2.3 Fluid flow; 1.2.4 Mixing; 1.2.5 Size adjustment; 1.2.6 Separation; 1.3 Thermophysical properties, microbial aspects, and other considerations in food processing; 1.3.1 Raw material handling; 1.3.2 Cleaning and sanitation; 1.3.3 Engineering properties of food, biological, and packaging material; 1.3.4 Microbiological considerations.

1.3.5 Role of acidity and water activity in food safety and quality1.3.6 Reaction kinetics; 1.4 Common food preservation/processing technologies; 1.4.1 Goals of food processing; 1.4.2 Processes using addition or removal of heat; 1.4.3 Non-thermal food processing and preservation; 1.4.4 Redefining pasteurization; 1.5 Other food processing/preservation technologies; 1.5.1 Fermentation; 1.5.2 Extrusion; 1.5.3 Baking; 1.5.4 Hurdle technology; 1.5.5 Packaging; 1.6 Emerging issues and sustainability in food processing; 1.7 Conclusion; References; 2 Thermal Principles and Kinetics; 2.1 Introduction.

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