The history of starches and investigations of starch containing raw materials goes back many centuries, (ii) steady progress in the understanding o...

This book contains original reviews and research papers presented at the 1st Moscow Conference on 'Starch and Starch Origins-Structure, Properties ...

This book discusses critical findings about the significance of Stevia rebaudiana, a natural calorie free sweetener and ways to incorporate it in o...

Consumers are increasingly demanding, looking for different food products, new, more shocking and surprising, and providing more pleasurable feelin...

Knowledge of the responses of micro-organisms to environmental stresses has led to tremendous advances in the their morphological, physiological an...

Strontium (Sr) is one of the most extensively investigated alkaline earth metals and has received much attention for biomedical applications since ...

This book discusses spectral (IR, electronic and EPR) and magnetic properties, as well as crystal structures of CuII complexes with pyridinecarboxy...

A variety of analytical techniques have been developed to determine the content of sugars in honey, such as spectroscopic, chromatographic, and ele...

Sugar beet is one of two the most important industrial cultures for sugar production. Sugar beet is an effective bioindicator plant used for bioass...

Electrochemical Capacitors (ECs) are a class of energy storage device that fill the gap between high energy density batteries and high-power-densit...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) has been widely researched in numerous application domains in manufacturing and service industries during the last de...

This book has the ambition of presenting sustainability issues in a simple way to students in the field of agriculture and the environment. There i...

Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.), the seventh most important food crop after wheat, rice (paddy), maize, potato, barley and cassava, is a staple f...

Sweet potato is a short-cycle, dicotyledonous plant in the morning glory family Convolvulaceae. It is a vegetable crop with roots that are sweet-ta...

Fermented foods are one of the indispensable components of dietary culture in every community in the world. Although there are numerous fermented m...

The interest in polymer composites study is due to an even greater degree of their application. The filling by hard disperse particulates or fibres...

Synthesis & Properties Of Polymers

Feeding the world's human population of nearly seven billion people is probably the most demanding challenge we face in the 21st century. We need t...

Fiber is a class of materials that are continuous filaments or are in discrete elongated pieces, similar to lengths of thread. Fibers are very impo...

Textile materials or materials made from textiles are probably among the most important materials in the world. Textile materials are not only pres...

This long-awaited guide serves as a tool to explain the general principles of natural dyeing, and to help dyers to become more accomplished at thei...

Tin has been used since ancient times to make vessels of many sorts. Here is a tribute to the men and women who made and decorated utilitarian tinw...

You know you're hooked when you get that feeling in the pit of your stomach. Is it a shortness of breath or a flush that comes to your face when yo...

The Diversified Benefits of Cocoa and Chocolate begins with an analysis of Theobroma cacao L, a species that is cultivated for butter and chocolate...