Progress in food preservation

This volume presents a wide range of new approaches aimed at improving the safety and quality of food products and agricultural commodities.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Abd Karim Alias (Author), Bhat, Rajeev (Author), Paliyath, Gopinadhan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, U.K. : John Wiley & Sons , 2012
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Selected techniques to decontaminate minimally processed vegetables
  • 2. Active and intelligent packaging of food
  • 3. Modified-atmosphere storage of foods
  • 4. Effects of combined treatments with modified-atmosphere packaging on shelf-life improvement of food products
  • 5. Coating technology for food preservation
  • 6. Biological materials and food-drying innovations
  • 7. Atmospheric freeze drying
  • 8. Osmotic dehydration: theory, methodologies, and applications in fish, seafood, and meat products
  • 9. Dehydration of fruit and vegetables in tropical regions
  • 10. Developments in the thermal processing of food
  • 11. Ozone in food preservation
  • 12. Application of high hydrostatic pressure technology for processing and preservation of foods
  • 13. Pulsed electric fields for food preservation: an update on technological progress
  • 14. Salting technology in fish processing
  • 15. Hypoxanthine levels, chemical studies and bacterial flora of alternate frozen/thawed market-simulated marine fish species
  • 16. Preservation of cassava (Manihot esculenta crantz): a major crop to nourish people worldwide
  • 17. Use of electron beams in food preservation
  • 18. Treatment of foods using high hydrostatic pressure
  • 19. Role of predictive microbiology in food preservation
  • 20. Factors affecting the growth of microorganisms in food
  • 21. A whole-chain approach to food safety management and quality assurance of fresh produce
  • 22. Food bioprotection: lactic acid bacteria as natural preservatives
  • 23. Bacteriocins: recent advances and opportunities
  • 24. Application of botanicals as natural preservatives in food
  • 25. Tropical medicinal plants in food processing and preservation: potentials and challenges
  • 26. Essential oils and other plant extracts as food preservatives
  • 27. Plant-based products as control agents of stored-product insect pests in the tropics
  • 28. Preservation of plant and animal foods: an overview