Advances in food biochemistry
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Fatih Yildiz
- ناشر : Boca Raton : CRC Press,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2010
- شابک / ISBN : 9780849374999
Description
Water and its relation to food -- Glycobiology of foods : food carbohydrates-occurrence, production, food uses, and healthful properties -- Amino acids, oligopeptides, polypeptides, and proteins -- Enzymes applied in food technology -- Lipids, fats, and oils -- Nucleic acid biochemistry : food applications -- Hormones : regulation of human metabolism -- Physiologically bioactive compounds of functional foods, herbs, and dietary supplements -- Flavor compounds in foods -- Food acids : organic acids, volatile organic acids, and phenolic acids -- Biological oxidations : enzymatic and nonenzymatic browning reactions and control mechanisms -- Lipid oxidation and control of oxidation -- Food additives and contaminants -- Nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics -- Pharmacogenomics and toxicogenomics in food chemicals.
Understanding the biochemistry of food is basic to all other research and development in the fields of food science, technology, and nutrition, and the past decade has seen accelerated progress in these areas. This volume provides a unified exploration of foods from a biochemical perspective.
