Strategies to Improve the Quality of Foods, Volume One in the Developments in Food Quality and Safety series explores salt, sugar and fat reduction, while also discussing natural alternatives and nitrate and nitrate salts. Enrichment of foods with prebiotics, probiotics and pos-biotics in food development is also explored. This series is the most up-to-date resource covering trend topics such as Advances in the analysis of toxic compounds and control of food poisoning; Food fraud, traceability and authenticity; Revalorization of agrifood industry; Natural antimicrobial compounds and...

Non-Conventional Starch Sources: Properties, Functionality, and Applications presents the use of non-conventional, unutilized, and underutilized sources to isolate, characterize and functionalize starches. Specific attention is paid to the sources’ application in foods as well as their incorporation into packaging through films and coatings. Broken into seven sections, this book addresses sources from fruit seeds, cereals and millets, pseudo-cereals, seeds, roots and tubers, rhizome and legumes. Food scientists, technologists and students and researchers studying related fields will benefit...