Product Description: Headspace gas analysis is an analytical technique that has been successfully applied to food flavors for over 20 years but has experienced a resurgence of interest and innovation in recent years. In its truest form, headspace analysis represents the direct collection and analysis of the mixture of vapors in the space immediately above a food or beverage...read more

Product Description: This book is targeted at all those involved with seasonings and flavourings in the food industry and has relevant appeal for technical, purchasing, development, production and marketing staff in seasoning and ingredient companies as well as food manufacturers...read more

Product Description: Flavour is an important sensory aspect of the overall acceptability of meat products. Whether we accept or reject a food depends primarily on its flavour. Both desirable and undesirable flavour effects are contemplated. Furthermore, threshold values of different flavour-active compounds have an important effect on the cumulative sensory properties of all foods...read more

Product Description: Ethnic and international foods have gradually been integrated into the daily diet in North America. However, the existing literature of flavor characteristics and chemistry of such foods remains fragmentary and diverse. This book presents a summary of the current status of knowledge in this area...read more

Product Description: The need for a further edition of a book is gratifying for contributors and editor alike. When faced with the corresponding challenge to identify what has changed in one sector of a particular industry, however, initial enthusiasm frequently declines...read more

Product Description: Herbs and spices are among the most versatile ingredients in food processing, and alongside their sustained popularity as flavourants and colourants they are increasingly being used for their natural preservative and potential health-promoting properties...read more

Product Description: Written from a practical, problem-solving perspective, this reference explores advances in mass spectrometry, sample preparation, gas chromatography (GC)-olfactometry, and electronic-nose technology for food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Get a good start in flavor and fragrance chemistry! This book presents a survey of those natural and synthetic fragrance and flavor materials which are isolated and produced commercially on a relatively large scale because of their organoleptic characteristics. It provides information on their properties, methods employed in their manufacture, and their areas of application. '...The excellent and concise introduction to this unique industry is followed by extensive information on nearly 500 of the most used fragrance and flavor compounds. Names, molecular formula, physical data, odor and flavor descriptions, uses, and a number of processes for the larger volume chemicals are all included. Successive chapters deal with essential oils, animal secretions, quality control, toxicology and literature. The formula, name and CAS registry number index is an invaluable and timely addition.' Parfumer and Flavorist '...This book provides a lot of useful information in one place, and it is an especially good resource for somebody just entering the flavor and fragrance industry.' Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 'You'll find much information in this book not found in other works.' Foster's Herb Business Bulletin 'Particularly useful for natural product chemists, those in the product development and the curious.' Herbalgram

Product Description: The rapidly evolving field of food flavor chemistry holds an important role in a wide variety of food and beverage products. Food Flavor and Chemistry: Explorations into the 21st Century provides the reader with an update on the advances in food chemistry and flavor science with a broad spectrum of food products from both plants and animals...read more

Product Description: The chemistry of flavours and fragrances is of great interest to academics and industrialists alike. Bringing together international contributors, this book presents the most recent research in this key area. Diverse topics such as structure-activity relationships; analytical techniques; natural products and essential oils; and organic and bioorganic chemistry are discussed, along with flavours and foods...read more

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Product Description: Food Flavor Technology presents a review of the state of the art of flavor technology. It covers flavor generation, flavor delivery, and flavor analysis. The material also discusses the important concept of flavor encapsulation, and it comprehensively analyzes the industrial applications of food flavor technology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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This exciting new edition of Fenaroli's Handbook of Flavor Ingredients brings together regulatory citations, FEMA numbers, substance names and common synonyms, specifications (such as the GRAS classification by FEMA), natural sources, and permitted use levels in food into a convenient and easy-to-use reference set. The Handbook defines much of the arcane and specialized language of the flavorist. It also helps to keep you up to date on the most current industry standards. (view table of contents)

The first book of its kind in over a decade, this authorative guide sets a new standard for accessible, up-to-date information on spices and seasonings. It provides a comprehensive, highly practical account of all aspects of the spice and seasoning trade, ranging from importing and processing spices to realistic, easy-to-follow specifications for developing and duplicating a wide variety of seasoning blends. Covering thoroughly the 30 most commonly-used spices, the authors also provide unique, how-to guidance for duplicating developing seasoning blends, complete with tips, tricks, and detailed accounts of seasoning formulation. Separate chapters are provided for simple seasoning blends, used on meats, and ethnic foods. Also included is unique coverage of research in the spice and extractives area, featuring antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of spices. Literature from the past decade is included, as is an appendix of American Spice Trade Association members. Audience: Spices and Seasonings is an indispensable reference for spice processors, purchasing agents for raw or processed spices, quality- assurance and spice-formulating food technologists, product development professionals in spice and seasoning companies, and food processing industry professionals who use spice in their products. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The volume deals with several aspects of the chemistry of both synthetic and natural organic compounds related to flavours and fragrances. It presents very recent results, some of them previously unpublished, and findings related to the chemistry of flavours and fragrances...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This work focuses on the preparation, structure, chemistry, functional properties, stability, handling and applications of naturally-derived colorants approved for use in food products in the USA, Europe and Asia. It presents studies that investigate whether natural colorants reduce risk of heart disease, specific types of cancer, and other conditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text presents our current progress in the understanding of the chemistry and physiology of various categories of food colorants. It includes reviews of the chemistry and physiology of food colorants, carotenoids, anthocyanins and the oxidative transformation of tea catechins...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents the first collaboration between the ACS's Division of Agriculture and Food Chemistry and the Institute of Food Technologists. The latest developments in flavor chemistry, including new research in reaction flavors, encapsulation techniques, flavor formations via lipids, flavor analysis, and challenges in flavoring nutraceuticals, are presented in papers from leading workers in these fields...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)