This book on rice bran oil is the latest book in a series that includes books on soybeans, Canola, palm oil and sunflower. Like its predecessors it has been edited by recognized experts who have engaged specialist authors for the various chapters.. The book confirms that rice bran continues to be an underutilized raw material. Hopefully, this book which includes chapters describing Nutritional ingredients and active compositions of defatted rice bran and Rice bran protein and shows that oil is not the only valuable product of bran extraction will encourage such a system being realized. Perhaps the chapter on Rice husk, rice husk ash and their applications, will also stimulate interest in the field.
Rice bran oil is unique in that it contains ?-oryzanol, a mixture of esters of ferulic acid and a range of phytosterols, which mixture is considered to provide the oil with important nutraceutical properties. Accordingly, the book includes chapters dealing with Nutritional studies, Micronutrients, and Nutritional ingredients. The book is well written and easy to read.
Review by Albert Dijkstra 3/4/2019
FAOCS (Fellow American Oil Chemists' Society) and Scientific consultant
1. Chemistry of Rice Bran Oil 2. Nutritional Studies of Rice Bran Oil 3. Processing Technology of Rice Bran Oil 4. Bioprocessing Technology of Rice Bran Oil 5. Micronutrients in Rice Bran Oil 6. Applications of Rice Bran Oil 7. Analytical Aspects of Rice Bran Oil 8. Development of Rice Bran Functional Food and Evaluation of Its Healthful Properties 9. Rice Husk/Rice Husk Ash and Their Applications 10. Nutritional Ingredients and Active Compositions of Defatted Rice Bran 11. Rice Bran Protein: Extraction, Nutraceutical Properties, and Potential Applications
Ling-Zhi Cheong, Ph.D. actively participates and engages in research projects with both academic and industrial researchers in the field of enzyme technology, biocatalysis and biotransformation, lipids and phospholipids processing, lipid physics and functionality, food colloids especially surface active compounds with antioxidative properties and encapsulation technology. To date, she has actively authored and co-authored peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in aforementioned research areas.
Xuebing Xu, is the general manager for Wilmar Global R&D Center. He is also honorary professor in the Faculty of Science and Technology of Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests include lipid technology, enzyme technology, food functionality, food nanotechnology, biofuel technology, etc. with particular focus on structured lipids, biocatalysis, process technology, phospholipids, ionic liquids, biodiesels, food physics, etc. Xuebing Xu is also associate editor for JAOCS, ad hoc reviewer for more than 150 papers and members of editorial board for journals including EJLST, Open Biotechnology, etc. He has authored more than 200 publications and over 30 book chapters in lipid-related researches.