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For the first time, this singular and comprehensive text presents a
focus on quantitative studies aiming to describe food digestion and
the tools that are available for quantification. A case study
relevant to real-world applications places this theoretical
knowledge in context and demonstrates the different ways digestion
studies can be used to develop food products. Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Food Digestion undertakes a multidisciplinary
approach to food digestion studies, placing them in context and
presenting relevant phenomena plus the challenges and limitations
of different approaches. This book presents a unique, useful
reference work to scientists, students, and researchers in the area
of food science, engineering, and nutrition. Over the last two
decades there has been an increasing demand for foods that deliver
specific nutritional values. In addition, the dramatic increase of
food related diseases such as obesity requires the development of
novel food products that control satiety and glycemic response.
Overall, digestion studies are gaining increasing attention in
recent years, especially as the link between diet and
health/well-being becomes more evident. However, digestion is a
complex process involving a wide range of disciplines such as
medicine, nutrition, chemistry, materials science, and engineering.
While a significant body of work exists within each discipline,
there is a lack of a multidisciplinary approach on the topic which
will provide a holistic view of the process. With Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Food Digestion, researchers are finally presented
with this much needed approach.
"Infogest" (Improving Health Properties of Food by Sharing our
Knowledge on the Digestive Process) is an EU COST action/network in
the domain of Food and Agriculture that will last for 4 years from
April 4, 2011. Infogest aims at building an open international
network of institutes undertaking multidisciplinary basic research
on food digestion gathering scientists from different origins (food
scientists, gut physiologists, nutritionists...). The network
gathers 70 partners from academia, corresponding to a total of 29
countries. The three main scientific goals are: Identify the
beneficial food components released in the gut during digestion;
Support the effect of beneficial food components on human health;
Promote harmonization of currently used digestion models Infogest
meetings highlighted the need for a publication that would provide
researchers with an insight into the advantages and disadvantages
associated with the use of respective in vitro and ex vivo assays
to evaluate the effects of foods and food bioactives on health.
Such assays are particularly important in situations where a large
number of foods/bioactives need to be screened rapidly and in a
cost effective manner in order to ultimately identify lead
foods/bioactives that can be the subject of in vivo assays. The
book is an asset to researchers wishing to study the health
benefits of their foods and food bioactives of interest and
highlights which in vitro/ex vivo assays are of greatest relevance
to their goals, what sort of outputs/data can be generated and, as
noted above, highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the various
assays. It is also an important resource for undergraduate students
in the 'food and health' arena.
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