Functional Cereals and Cereal Foods - Properties, Functionality and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

In recent years, consumers are concentrating more on the health benefits of food in order to preserve a healthy lifestyle and therefore becoming more aware of the relationship between diet and disease. This has resulted in a gradual shift from animal-derived to plant-based meals. Functional foods have turned into one of the rapidly expanding areas of the food industry due to the increasing awareness of consumers working to prevent lethal diseases like cancer, diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. Functional foods are seen as the food or food components that manifest efficiency in protecting from diseases and attaining a healthier lifestyle by administering additional benefits on human physiology and metabolic functions apart from basic nutritional requirements of the body. Cereals hold a prominent place in this new market. Cereals and cereal foods are important energy sources and many phytochemicals such as dietary fiber, resistant starch, vitamins, minerals, lignans, phytic acid and phenolic compounds that provide a variety of health benefits. Eating functional cereal foods is an easy method to increase nutrients associated with whole grains without changing eating habits. Functional Cereals and Cereal Foods: Properties, Functionality and Applications comprehensively covers the Chemistry and nutritional composition of functional cereals components, their functionality and therapeutic significance, current innovations and functional approaches in improving attributes and biofortification and quality improvement of cereal products. The different types of functional cereals and their unlimited opportunities for the production of functional foods are covered in full, including gluten-free products and all the newest cereal processing technologies. For researchers in search of a fully up-to-date look at functional cereal foods and technologies and their important place on the current market, this text provides a timely and comprehensive overview.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	August 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Sneh Punia Bangar • Anil Kumar Siroha
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	439
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-105610-9
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > Analytical chemistry > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Microbiology (non-medical) > General Books > Professional & Technical > Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies > Industrial chemistry > Food & beverage technology > General
LSN:	3-03-105610-8
Barcode:	9783031056109

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