Ochratoxin is a kind of secondary metabolite produced by Aspergillus and Penicillium. It mainly contains Ochartoxin A (OTA), Ochratoxin B (OTB), Oc...

This book "The olive, its processing and waste management", endeavours to cover a broad spectrum regarding different aspects of the olive oil secto...

Olive oil, which has been part of the human diet for more than 5,000 years, is almost unique among oils in that it can be consumed in the crude for...

In Chapter One, D M Salazar, I López-Cortés, and D C Salazar-García give an overview of the composition of fatty acids, tocopherols, and polyphenol...

The economic impact of food-borne illnesses caused by bacteria associated with food animals ranges from $10 to 40 billion (USD) per year, and effec...

Flavonoids and organosulfur compounds are the two major classes of secondary metabolites found in onions that are believed to play a role as health...

Plastics processing is a major industrial activity, which yields components and systems for a wide range of industries, such as packaging, automoti...

A solvent is a liquid that becomes a solution by dissolving a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute. The most common solvent in everyday life is water. ...

Palm oil is considered as one of the most traded agricultural commodities in the world. It is conventionally being used for food and dietary applic...

Members of the genus Vibrio are natural habitants of the marine environments. Many of them are human pathogens and can cause illness associated wit...

In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the cultivation, varieties and nutritional uses of peas. Topics discussed in thi...

The pepper fruit is commonly consumed as fresh fruit. In addition, the fruit is used in food industry and in manufacture processing, either ferment...

Pepsi-Cola*r marked its 100th anniversary in 1998 with much fanfare for the internationally known beverage! This book compiles a fabulous array of ...

PEZ made it OK to play with your food, and now those imaginative, colorful candy dispensers are sought after by collectors worldwide. After PEZ can...

In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the properties, health effects and environmental issues relating to phosphorus. ...

This book demonstrates outstanding improvement of photo-catalytic degradative efficiency by the coupling of microwave (MW) radiation with the titan...

This book presents current research in the study of photochemistry, including novel electron-transfer three-component visible light photoinitiating...

This new century will be an age in which humanity will strive for the recovery and preservation of a more natural environment and also for the esta...

The effect of polyvalent dopants on photoinduced defect formation was studied in different glasses. Ionisation of the glass matrix results in intri...

Metallic, organic and mineral glasses evolve similarly with the time and approach an equilibrium state. This physical aging, a basic feature of the...