
Functionality and Application of Colored Cereals
Nutritional, Bioactive, and Health Aspects
- 1st Edition - November 23, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Sneh Punia, Manoj Kumar
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 7 3 3 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 7 3 4 - 8
Functionality and Application of Colored Cereals: Nutritional, Bioactive and Health Aspects focuses on exploiting the full and functional possibilities of these grains. From thei… Read more
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Functionality and Application of Colored Cereals: Nutritional, Bioactive and Health Aspects focuses on exploiting the full and functional possibilities of these grains. From their physical chemistry to their health benefits, this book highlights cereals with potential for enhanced products. Plant-based food colorants play an important role in conferring colors to food to increase attractiveness for consumers, improve appetite, minimize synthetic colorants, and conform to food culture. Over the last decades, the presence of anthocyanin and other bioactive compounds in colored cereal grains (maize, rice, wheat, barley, sorghum, millet, and rye) have attracted the attention of various food processors and researchers.
Colored cereals are imperative for food processing industries as high-value pigments present in the bran layer can easily be extracted and utilized as functional foods and natural colorants. The extracted pigments such as anthocyanin can replace synthetic dyes currently used in foods, drugs and cosmetics. Additionally, natural additives improve the nutritional value, appearance, texture, flavor and storage properties of food products.
- Reviews colored cereal grains morphology, composition and the diversity of the different uses of cereal grains
- Includes content on the functionality and therapeutic significance of functional components of colored cereal grains
- Contains global coverage of the latest research on the bioactive potential, food applications and health benefits of colored cereals
Agronomists, cereal chemist, food technologist, and industry professionals, who need to understand the development, structure, composition, and end-use properties of the cereals and cereals products with nutritional and quality improvements Product development and research in functional foods
1. Colored cereal (blue, black, purple, and red): Botanical Aspects
2. Colored Cereals: Nutritional Quality
3. Colored Cereals: Beyond Nutritional values
4. Colored Creals: Food applications
5. Colored Creals: Genetics and chemistry of pigments
6. Colored Creals: Extraction and purification of bioactive compounds (pigments)
7. Anthocyanin and its health benefits
8. Phenolic compounds and their health benefits
9. Genetic manipulation of colored cereals for improved nutritional quality
10. Biofortification of colored cereals with essential micronutrients
11. Processing colored cereals to optimize product quality
12. Potential use of colored cereals in processed foods and food systems
13. Future research in the colored Grains
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 23, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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Sneh Punia
Sneh Punia, Ph.D., is a researcher at the Department of Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences at Clemson University, United States. Her research interests include the extraction and functional characterization of cereal starches, modified starches, biopolymers, and coatings. From 2017 to 2020, she worked as Assistant Professor (C) in the Department of Food Science and Technology, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa. She has also worked on coloured cereals such as black rice and successfully published her work in an international peer-reviewed journal. She has presented her research in various national and international conferences and has published more than 50 research papers/book chapters in national and international journals/books. She has published two edited and two authored books with CRC Taylor and Francis Group. She also serves as the reviewer for various international journals. To date, she has authored or co-authored more than 63 publications (published/accepted), one book series, 2 authored books, 2 edited books, one reference book, 34 book chapters, 20 conference proceedings/seminars, and 3 Guest Editor of Journals special issues.
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