Functional dairy products [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911004768203321
• Autore: Matilla-Sandholm T
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2003
• ISBN: 1-280-37322-9; 9786610373222; 1-59124-639-3; 1-85573-691-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SaarelaM
• Disciplina: 641.37
• Soggetti: Functional foods - Analysis; Human Anatomy & Physiology; Health & Biological Sciences; Physiology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Preliminaries""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction classifying functional dairy products""; ""2 Cancer""; ""3 Coronary heart disease""; ""4 Osteoporosis""; ""5 Probiotics and the management of food allergy""; ""6 Dairy products and the immune function in the elderly""; ""7 The therapeutic use of probiotics in gastrointestinal inflammation""; ""8 Caseinophosphopeptides CPPs as functional ingredients""; ""9 Oligosaccharides""; ""10 Lactic acid bacteria LAB in functional dairy products""; ""11 Conjugated linoleic acid CLA as a functional ingredient""; ""12 Enhancing the functionality of prebiotics and probiotics""""13 Safety evaluation of probiotics""; ""14 Clinical trials""; ""15 Consumers and functional foods""; ""16 European research in probiotics and prebiotics the PROEUHEALTH cluster""; ""17 The market for functional dairy products the case of the United States""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Dairy products constitute one of the most important types of functional food. Edited by two of the leading authorities in the field, and with a distinguished international team of contributors, this major collection reviews the health benefits of functional dairy products, their ; ingredients and key product development issues. After an introductory survey of the various types of functional dairy product, Part 1 discusses current research on the health benefits of functional dairy products, with chapters on cancer, coronary heart disease, osteoporosis, food allergy, immune function and gastroint