Fish Oils
Leatherhead Ingredients Handbooks
1. Auflage Juni 2009
200 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
Fish oils have been high on the nutritional agenda for many years now, with the body of research into the beneficial health effects of long chain fatty acids growing each year. Thanks to improvements in technology, fish oils are used more widely and palatably as healthy, functional ingredients, in an increasing number of products such as milk, cheese, yogurts and fat spreads. This book is a valuable source of information for all those working in the food industry with any involvement in the use of, or research into fish oils.
Fish oils have been high on the nutritional agenda for many years now, with the body of research into the beneficial health effects of long chain fatty acids growing each year. The use of fish oils and their constituent fatty acids as functional ingredients, added to an increasing number of products has grown with improved processing techniques and the ability to stabilise and protect these oils in foods such as milk, cheese, yogurts and fat spreads.
The fourth in a series of Handbooks edited by Dr Barry Rossell, the book is a very useful source of information for all those working in the food industry with any involvement in the use of, or research into, fish oils.
The book includes information on:
* The important dietary constituents in fish oils
* Physical properties such as flash point, density, viscosity, optical properties and Thermal conductivity
* Fatty acids in fish oils
* Processing methodology
* The nutritional benefits of fish oils
* Uses of liquid fish oils in foods
* Rancidity in fish oils and its prevention
* Legislation covering fish oil production and use
Production volumes and trade in fish oils
Frank Gunstone
2
Fish oils as sources of valuable dietary constituents
Frank Gunstone
3
Physical properties
Paul Nesvadba
4
Fish Oils - The Chemical Building Blocks
Colin Moffat
5
Processing of Fish Oil
Wolf Hamm
6
Hydrogenation of Fish Oils
Wishcer Koetsier
7
Nutritional Value of Fish Oils
Ray Rice
8
Uses in Foods of Non-hydrogenated Fish oils
Ray Rice
9
Farmed fish: the impact of diet on fatty acid compositions
Gordon Bell
10
Rancidity in Fish Oil
Dick Hamilton
11
Regulatory Issues for Fish Oils
LFI
