Dietary Fiber: Properties, Recovery, and Applications

Comprehensive update on the properties, processing, recovery issues and applications of dietary fiber

Charis M. Galanakis (Edited by)

9780128164952, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 15 June 2019

364 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.3 cm, 0.75 kg

Dietary Fiber: Properties, Recovery and Applications explores the properties and health effects of dietary fiber, along with new trends in recovery procedures and applications. The book covers the most trending topics of dietary fiber applications, emphasizing polyphenol properties, bioavailability and metabolomics, target sources, recovery and emerging technologies, technological aspects, stability during processing, and applications in the food, beverage and nutraceutical sectors. Written by a team of experts in the field of dietary fiber, this book is ideal for chemists, food scientists, technologists, new product developers and academics.

1. Definitions and regulatory perspectives of dietary fiber 2. Classification and technological properties 3. Sustainable sources of dietary fiber 4. Dietary fiber and metabolism 5. Interaction and effect of dietary fiber and phenolic compounds after ingestion 6. Dietary fiber and nutrition 7. Health effect of dietary fiber against diseases 8. Analytical procedures 9. Sustainable sources of dietary fiber 10. Conventional and emerging extraction technologies 11. Prebiotic and dairy applications 12. Applications in bakery products 13. Applications in meat products

Subject Areas: Fitness & diet [VFM], Food & beverage technology [TDCT]