News Review: Lipid Technology 6/2008

• Book ID: 102468299
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 177 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0956-666X
• DOI: 10.1002/lite.200800029

✦ Synopsis

Phospholipid Technology and Applications should be of special value to technologists developing food and cosmetics products, scientists researching phospholipids in biological and food systems, technologists in fats and oils refining, and scientists developing drugs and drug delivery systems and carriers. The early chapters in this book are devoted to the more common glycerol-based phospholipids and cover their structure, source, composition, modification by chemical and enzymatic methods, their physical, chemical, and nutritional properties, and their major uses. The final chapter is devoted to another kind of phospholipids, the sphingolipids, in which there is a growing interest. The contents include: • Chemical structure and biological function • Major sources, composition and processing • Enzymatic modification of phospholipids and related polar lipids • Uses of phospholipids as functional ingredients • Physical properties of phospholipids • Clinical and nutritional properties of phospholipids • Chemical modification • Sphingolipids