Berry Fruit: Value-Added Products for Health Promotion (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780849358029)

Valued for its unique flavors, textures, and colors, berry fruit is a rapidly-growing crop that provides significant health benefits due to its many bioactive components. Berry Fruit: Value-Added Products for Health Promotion provides an understanding of the functional chemicals, shelf-life and microbial safety concerns, and applications in the food industry. Written by international experts, each chapter presents scientific background, research results, critical reviews of relevant issues, and case studies. Chapters include worldwide production information, bioactive food constituents and their potential health benefits, methods of enhancing food quality, and potential uses of berry processing by-products.

Author: Yanyun Zhao
ISBN-10: 0849358027
ISBN-13: 9780849358029
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English
Published: 06/06/2007
Pages: 442
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.46w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2007 pg. 61