Food Engineering: Emerging Issues, Modeling, and Applications

This new volume presents a selection of recent advances and emerging trends in food process engineering from several disciplines. Exploring the key concepts of food engineering, Food Engineering: Emerging Issues, Modeling, and Applications presents the information in four parts: Modeling in food engineering; Research advances in food engineering; Role of food engineering in human health; Emerging issues and applications in food engineering. Modeling in Food Engineering. Governing Principles of Mathematical Modeling. Modeling of Water Absorption in Chick Peas during Soaking. Mathematical Modeling in Foods: Review. Review of Research Advances in Food Engineering. Role of Encapsulation in Food and Nutrition. Food Packaging Technologies. Role of Food Engineering in Human Health. Application of Probiotic and Prebiotic for Human Health. Functional Food, Nutraceuticals and Human Health. Phytochemicals, Functional Food and Nutraceuticals for Oral Cancer Chemo-prevention. Food Engineering: Aromatic and Medicinal Plants. Emerging Issues and Applications in Food Engineering. Three-Dimensional Printing of Food. Structuring Edible Oil Using Food Grade Oleogelators. Extraction Technology for Rice Volatile Aroma Compounds. Non-thermal Process: Pulsed Electric Fields, Pulsed Light, High Hydrostatic Pressure and Ionizing Radiation. Biosensors in Food Engineering. Milk Pasteurization by Microwave.