Nanotechnology in the Beverage industry: Fundamentals and Applications looks at how nanotechnology is being used to enhance water quality, as well as how the properties of nanomaterials can be used to create different properties in both alcoholic and no-alcoholic drinks and enhance the biosafety of both drinks and their packaging. This is an important reference for materials scientists, engineers, food scientists and microbiologists who want to learn more about how nanotechnology is being used to enhance beverage products. As active packaging technology, nanotechnology can increase shelf-life and maintain the quality of beverages. In the field of water treatment, nanomaterials offer new routes to address challenges.

Food texture is important in product development, quality control, sensory testing, and process engineering. Fortunately, there have been efforts to fully characterize the texture of many food products with methods such as Texture Profile Analysis (TPA). Knowing how to effectively characterize the texture of a food product allows one to constantly improve formulations, processing methods, product stability, and shelf life. Camel meat is healthier as they produce carcasses with less fat as well as having less levels of cholesterol in fat than other meat animals, This is an important factor in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, which is related to saturated fat consumption, Camel meat is also used for remedial purposes for diseases such as hyperacidity, hypertension, pneumonia and respiratory disease as well as an aphrodisiac. There for in this book meat (beef and camel) were used to prepare burger and sausage blends at different ratios of defatted soybean flour use in producing burger and sausage.

Irradiation, as a method of meat preservation, has excellent potential in the elimination of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms from meat and meat products. Knowledge about effect of gamma irradiation on the shelf-life and quality attributes of camel sausage and chicken burger is important to maintain the microbiological safety of these meat products and extend their shelf-life. Camel meat is considered to be one of the toughest kinds of meat, and differs from beef in the higher content of connective tissue. Effect of gamma irradiation on chemical compositions, freshness tests, physicochemical, microbiological examination and sensory evaluation of camel sausage and chicken burger were evaluated in this book. Also gamma irradiation doses (1.5, 3 and 4.5 KGy) and cold preservation were evaluated in camel sausage and chicken burger.

Knowledge about the thermal, rheological properties, mechanical properties, textural characteristics and physical properties of food materials have an important role from the stand point of engineering during processing of such materials. So, study of thermal and rheological properties, including determination of rheological and thermal parameters, is very important and the rheological parameters are very essential in designing the required equipments for handling and processing of the food materials. Also viscosity is usually considered an important physical property related to the quality of food products. Viscometric data are also essential for the design evaluation of food processing equipment such as pumps, piping, heat exchangers, evaporators, sterilizes filters and mixtures. Information on the mechanical properties of fruits and vegetables is of use in characterisation of material, fixing optimum time for harvest, separation from undesirable materials, texture and quality evaluation, assessment of the extent and nature of damage in collection, handling, and storage and processing, and identification of basic anatomical structure.