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Record Nr.

UNINA9910688472103321

Titolo

Innovation in the Food Sector Through the Valorization of Food and Agro-Food By-Products / / Ana Novo De Barros, Irene Gouvinhas, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : IntechOpen, , 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 pages)

Disciplina

664.08

Soggetti

Food processing by-products industry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents an integrated and multidisciplinary approach to quality and innovation in the food sector with particular emphasis on consumer perception of quality. Chapters cover such topics as identification of environmental variables, practices crops, and cultivars to improve nutritional and functional quality of different food matrices; increased preservation of biodiversity through the use of genetic resources; nutritional and functional characterization of food matrices; and evaluation of the main bioactive substances that give food its functional qualities.