Fruit and Vegetable Phytochemicals || Phenolic Compounds: Chemistry and Occurrence in Fruits and Vegetables

✍ Scribed by de la Rosa, Laura A.; Alvarez-Parrilla, Emilio; Gonzlez-Aguilar, Gustavo A.

• Book ID: 120304141
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 704 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0813803209
• DOI: 10.1002/9780813809397.ch2

✦ Synopsis

Fruit and Vegetable Phytochemicals: Chemistry, Nutritional Value and Stability provides scientists in the areas of food technology and nutrition with accessible and up-to-date information about the chemical nature, classification and analysis of the main phytochemicals present in fruits and vegetables – polyphenols and carotenoids. Special care is taken to analyze the health benefits of these compounds, their interaction with fiber, antioxidant and other biological activities, as well as the degradation processes that occur after harvest and minimal processing.