Plant Gum Exudates of the World: Sources, Distribution, Properties, and Applications

ISBN-13: 9781420052237 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 427 str.

Amos Nussinovitch

Opis

Plant Gum Exudates of the World: Sources, Distributions, Properties, and Applications is the most extensive collection of plant gum exudates in print, containing information on both well-established exudates and newer ones. It not only introduces an array of exudates never before described or reviewed, but also classifies gums according to their botanical taxonomy. This readily accessible book also supplies color plates of exudates in their natural environment along with relevant botanical parts. Each entry includes:

• Botanical name
• Common and vernacular gum names
• Geographical distribution information
• Appearance and color descriptions
• Water solubility information
• Chemical characteristics
• Structural features
• Physical and physicochemical properties
• Commercial availability
• Industrial and food applications
• Synonyms of and uses for the producing tree or shrub

Considered the magicians of the food ingredient world, gums (hydrocolloids) are used in a variety of food applications. They possess excellent thickening, binding, emulsifying, suspension, water-holding, gelling, and viscosity properties.

The first comprehensive reference produced on gums in more than half a century, this resource classifies most every gum in use according to its botanical taxonomy. Each entry contains the botanical name and synonyms of the tree or shrub from which it is exuded; a list of common and vernacular names; information on geographic distribution; common names for the gum; descriptions of appearance and color; information on its water solubility, chemical characteristics and structural features, physical and physicochemical properties; a description of its commercial availability; and its industrial and food applications.

The commercial and functional uses of other parts of the trees from which the gums originate are also detailed.

Color photographs are supplied to present many of the gum exudates in their natural state as well as the relevant tree, leaves, flowers, or other important botanical parts of the plant. Where pictures are not available, line drawings are used.

Spis treści

Role and Sources of Exudate Gums. Physiological Aspects of Polysaccharide Formation in Plants. Major Plant Exudates of the World. Minor Plant Exudates of the World. Food Applications of Plant Exudates. Gum Exudates in Water-Based Adhesives. Medical, Cosmetic and Biotechnological Uses of Gum Exudates. Analysis and Identification of Gum Exudates. Miscellaneous Uses of Plant Exudates.

O autorze

Dr. Amos Nussinovitch works in the Biochemistry and Food Science Department on the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he leads a large group of researchers working on theoretical and practical aspects of hydrocolloids, including coating of cells and foods, special glues and exudates patches, water-soluble polymer uses in paper, exudates preparations in cosmetics and medicine, hydrocolloid uses in explosives, ink, and special cellular solids and biological carriers.