Traditional food processing technologies in-spite of their effectiveness from a microbial safety standpoint, cause nutritional and sensory food deterioration. This has led to the emergence of novel nonthermal technologies, which also includes application of acoustic fields. Acoustic fields have been gaining increasing recognitions in the food and bioprocessing industries as they improve the process and provide better energy and/or process efficiencies by modifying or adding additional driving force for the transport mechanisms involved. Acoustic fields have an array of applications in food...

The whole idea of food packaging originated to protect the foods from environmental elements and contain them. However, with the change in consumer demands and technological innovations, food packaging has evidenced a great deal of extensions to its original functions and new packaging materials are constantly being added to the existing list. This book covers almost every aspect of food packaging - from basic to advanced research. An attempt has been made in this volume to provide a detailed and thorough market insight, in terms of the prevailing food packaging materials for the diverse...