Modern Biopolymer Science || Mapping the Different States of Food Components Using State Diagrams

✍ Scribed by Roos, Yrjö H.

• Book ID: 118066573
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 360 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0123741955
• DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-374195-0.00008-2

✦ Synopsis

Industrialists developing new food and pharmaceutical products face the challenge of innovation in an increasingly competitive market that must consider incredient cost, product added-value, expectations of a healthy life-style, improved sensory impact, controlled delivery of active compounds and last, but not lease, product stability. While much work has been done to explore, understand, and address these issues, a gap has emerged between recent advances in fundamental knowledge and its direct application to product situations with a growing need for scientific input.

Modern Biopolymer Science matches science to application by first acknowledging the differing viewpoints between those working with low-solids and those working with high-solids, and then sharing the expertise of those two camps under a unified framework of materials science.

* Real-world utilisation of fundamental science to achieve breakthroughs in product development
* Includes a wide range of related aspects of low and high-solids systems for foods and pharmaceuticals
* Covers more than bio-olymer science in foods by including biopolymer interactions with bioactive compounds, issues of importance in drug delivery and medicinal chemistry