Academic Press Value-Added Ingredients and Enrichments of Beverages: Volume 14: The Science of Beverages

Value-Added Ingredients and Enrichment of Beverages, Volume Fourteen in The Science of Beverages series, takes a multidisciplinary approach in addressing what consumers demand in natural beverages. This in-depth reference covers both natural and unnatural ingredients and explains their impact on consumer health and nutrition. Sweeteners, vitamins, oils and other natural ingredients to improve beverages are included. The book addresses some of the most common enrichments used in the industry, including those with biomedical and nutritional applications. This volume will be useful to anyone in the beverages industry who needs a better understanding of advances in the industry. Review "This book, which belongs to Volume 14: The Science of Beverages series, discusses about the food and beverage enrichments. It discusses the novel technologies of extraction and production of enrichments, their variety, as well as their impact on product quality and consumers effects. This book is intended for researchers in the field of food and beverages, and also biotechnologists, industrial representatives interested in innovation, academic staff and students in food science, engineering, biology, and chemistry-related fields, pharmacology and medicine, and is an updated resource for any reader interested to find the basics and recent innovations in the most investigated fields in beverage engineering. It contains 15 chapters under the following headings: Additionally added ingredients and enrichment of beverages: an overview (pp. 1-35); Health-promoting ingredients in beverages (pp. 37-61); Enrichment of beverages with health beneficial ingredients (pp.63-99); Functional and nutraceutical ingredients from marine resources (pp. 101-171); Potential health-promoting effects of probiotics in dairy beverages (pp. 173-204); Novel strategies to supplement probiotics to nondairy beverages (pp. 205-232); Probiotics in nondairy matrixes: a potential combination for the enrichment and elaboration of dual functionality beverages (pp. 233- 263); Sugar-sweetened beverages consumption and long-term side effects on nutrition and health outcomes in pediatric age group (pp. 265-283); Phenolic compounds as functional ingredients in beverages (pp. 285-323); Potential of antioxidants for functional beverages to improve health through good business (pp. 325-352); Omega-3 beverages (pp. 353-382); Anthocyanins as natural pigments in beverages (pp. 383-428); High-pressure carbon dioxide treatment of fresh fruit juices (pp. 429-463); Quality performance assessment of gas injection during juice processing and conventional preservation technologies (pp. 465-485); and Self-assembled systems based on surfactants and polymers as stabilizers for citral in beverages (pp. 487-521). A 14pp. Index is also present." --IFIS Publishing Review Helps readers understand current market trends and scientific advances in beverage supplementation, including new advancements and future prospects About the Author is a lecturer in the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, at the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. He is an experienced researcher and editor in the field of nano and biostructures. He is the editor-in-chief of two international open access journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters, and Letters in Applied NanoBioScience . Dr. Grumezescu has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, authored nine books and has served as editor on more than 50 scholarly books. is a lecturer in Microbiology and Immunology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; and associate researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Her primary area of research is the development of bionanomaterials with antimicrobial applications. Dr. Holban has published of 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals,