Sustainability of the Food System: Sovereignty, Waste, and Nutrients Bioavailability

ISBN-13: 9780128182932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str.

Noelia Betoret; Ester Betoret

Spis treści

Part I: Food Sovereignty 1. Traditional varieties with high content in bioactive compounds and functional raw materials for an increased biodiversity 2. Crop and cultivation processes to avoid soil degradation 3. Cultivated varieties and proximity consumption rule to decrease carbon footprint

Part II: Food production and food waste valorization 4. Biofuels from food processing by-products 5. Food industry by-products revalorization and new ingredients: Cases of study 6. Use of by-products in edible films and packaging

Part III: Innovative food technologies and nutrients bioavailability 7. Development of functional foods by traditional food processes 8. Effect of non-thermal technologies on functional food compounds 9. Probiotics and nutrition: use of probiotics to improve antioxidant properties and bioavailability of food compounds

Additional Chapter. Globalization of Technologies: Pros and Cons

O autorze

Noelia Betoret is an agricultural engineer specialized in agri-food industries. She received her PhD in science, technology, and food management at Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Her doctoral studies focused on functional food development, specifically in the use of matrix engineering technologies to formulate natural functional food in a controlled way. Now, Dr. Betoret is an associate professor in the Food Technology Department and is responsible for Functional Foods research laboratory in the Institute of Food Engineering for Development at Polytechnic University of Valencia. Her research activities focus on development of functional foods, new models for food process engineering, and benefits of food industry by-products. Ester Betoret is an agricultural engineer with a master's degree in food science and engineering and a PhD in science, technology and food management from Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Dr. Betoret is an expert in functional food development, with her research focusing on technologies that can increase the bioavailability of bioactive compounds included in different food matrices. She also researches byproducts and bioactive compounds focusing on structure-properties and interactions at Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).