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)

Product Description: No longer just passive containers, food packaging now serves to extend shelf life, improve the quality of the products, and even substitute for cookware. This book covers a range of new developments in packaging materials, including "active" packaging, techniques for establishing the safety of materials, and the use of edible films...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Provides a general overview of spice chemistry. Discusses the characterization, extraction, and intensity of flavors. Identifies the flavor components and antioxidant properties of specific spices. Includes methods for identifying specific spices in blends and proving authenticity of spices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Reviews the major methods used to encapsulate food ingredients, including spray drying, spray chilling and cooling, fluidized bed coating, liposome entrapment, rotational suspension separation, extrusion and inclusion complexation...read more

Product Description: Once simply a convenient container to hold and carry food, packaging has now become an integral part of the food chain. This new volume provides the most comprehensive and current information available on food packaging interactions, including presentations on migration, scalping, and permeability...read more

Product Description: Here is a new book that offers complete coverage of the most current research in flavor encapsulation. Covers processes such as extrusion, coacervation, microencapsulation, and molecular inclusion, with special emphasis on spray drying...read more