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Industrial Hemp

Food and Nutraceutical Applications

  • 1st Edition - June 16, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Milica Pojic, Brijesh K Tiwari
  • Language: English

Industrial Hemp: Food and Nutraceutical Applications is a comprehensive overview of different value chains for the industrial hemp industry. This excellent reference suppor… Read more

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Description

Industrial Hemp: Food and Nutraceutical Applications is a comprehensive overview of different value chains for the industrial hemp industry. This excellent reference supports multi-disciplines and presents industrial hemp as a multi-purpose crop, with special attention paid to its food and nutraceutical applications. By combining and presenting multidisciplinary knowledge, readers will be introduced to recent progress in hemp production, processing, utilization and marketing. The book provides a systematic overview of alternative hemp applications, but also serves as a guide to the challenges needed for hemp revitalization to reach its fullness.

Key features

  • Provides information on the biological activity of hemp extracts, their roles in disease prevention, and potential applications in the functional food and nutraceutical sectors
  • Discusses hemp as an alternative protein source used to create innovative hemp-based foods
  • Presents case studies that describe opportunities in hemp research, hemp agriculture and hemp processing

Readership

Agri-food scientists, biotechnologists, food technologists, food microbiologists, scientists and engineers, bio-entrepreneurs, food industry personnel, policy makers and other closely related professionals. Academics responsible for the delivery of courses dealing with nutraceutical and functional food, food and health, new product development, nutrition, and novel processing technologies

Table of contents

1. Perspectives of hemp cultivation

2. Hemp breeding and genetics

3. Hemp in agriculture

4. Nutritional and chemical composition of hemp seeds

5. Hemp proteins

6. Hemp seed oil and lipids

7. Nutraceutical potential of hemp

8. Hemp seed oil processing and technology

9. Hemp nutraceutical processing and technology

10. Hemp nutraceutical products and product properties

11. Hemp by-products

12. Hemp in animal feed applications

13. Regulatory aspects of hemp cultivation, processing and trade

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 16, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

MP

Milica Pojic

Dr Milica Pojić is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Food Technology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her research interests are in the area of new food product development and valorization of food by-products and alternative sustainable raw materials of plant origin. She coordinated several international and bilateral research projects in the area of novel food processing and formulation. Her research outputs include numerous peer-reviewed research publications, chapters, and two co-edited book. She is an editorial board member of two scientific journals: Food and Feed Research and Discover Food.
Affiliations and expertise
Principal Research Fellow, Institute of Food Technology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

BK

Brijesh K Tiwari

Brijesh K Tiwari is a principal research officer at TEAGASC and adjunct Professor at University College Dublin, Ireland. He obtained his Master’s degree at the Central Food Technological Research Institute (India) in 2003, and his PhD at the University College of Dublin (Ireland) in 2009. He leads a team of 6 postdoctoral researchers/Research officers and 14 PhDs in the area of novel food processing technologies. His research output includes over 200 peer-reviewed research publications and over 100 book chapters. He has also co-edited 14 books and is a book series editor for IFST Advances in Food Science book series. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Food Processing and Preservation.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Officer, TEAGASC – Agriculture and Food development Authority; Professor, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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