Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in South Asian Countries
- 1st Edition - March 13, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Jamuna Prakash, Viduranga Waisundara, Vishweshwaraiah Prakash
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 0 1 1 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 0 1 2 - 4
Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in South Asian Countries provides an analysis of traditional and ethnic foods from the South Asia Region, including India, Sri Lanka, Pa… Read more
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Request a sales quoteNutritional and Health Aspects of Food in South Asian Countries provides an analysis of traditional and ethnic foods from the South Asia Region, including India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Iran. The book addresses the history of use, origin, composition, preparation, ingredient composition, nutritional aspects, and the effects on the health of various foods and food products in each of these countries from the perspective of their Traditional and Ethnic Foods. In addition, the book presents local and international regulations and provides suggestions on how to harmonize regulations and traditional practices to promote safety and global availability of these foods.
- Analyzes nutritional and health claims related to South Asian foods
- Explores both scientific and anecdotal diet-based health claims
- Examines how these traditional foods can be viewed from regulatory requirements and how to address any noncompliance in dynamics or regulations
- Reviews the influence of historical eating habits on today’s diets and its combinatorial effect for health and wellness
Researchers, professionals (including nutritionists, dieticians, food scientists, food technologists, toxicologists, regulators, and product developers), educators, and students
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 13, 2020
- No. of pages (Paperback): 364
- No. of pages (eBook): 364
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128200117
- eBook ISBN: 9780128200124
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Jamuna Prakash
Dr. Jamuna Prakash is serving as Visiting Professor for International Union of Food Sciences & Technology and Department of Food Science & Biotechnology, Zhegiang Gongshang University, China. A former Professor of Food Science & Nutrition at University of Mysore, India, with vast teaching and research experience, she is a Fellow of IUFOST and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India. She has had an exemplary academic career with many awards and accolades and credited with more than 250 research and review papers, 15 books/book chapters, more than 400 presentations and successful completion of many research and educational projects. Her research interests are compositional analysis of foods, product formulation, sensory evaluation, nutrient digestibility and bioavailability, nutrition status of population, food behaviour. She is a member of many National and International committees, life member of many professional organizations and serves as Indian Ambassador for Global Harmonization Initiative, Austria.
Affiliations and expertise
Fellow, International Union of Food Science and Technology; Visiting Professor, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China; Ambassador for India, Global Harmonisation InitiativeVW
Viduranga Waisundara
Dr. Viduranga Waisundara is currently the Deputy Principal of the Australian College of Business & Technology – Kandy Campus, Sri Lanka. She obtained her Ph.D from the Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore in Food Science & Technology in 2010. She was a lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore from July 2009 – March 2013. Following this, she relocated to her motherland of Sri Lanka and spearheaded the Functional Food Product Development Project at the National Institute of Fundamental Studies from April 2013 – October 2016. Thereafter, she was a Senior Lecturer on a temporary basis at the Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Technology, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka from January 2017 – July 2018.
Affiliations and expertise
Australian College of Business and Technology – Kandy Campus, Sri LankaVP
Vishweshwaraiah Prakash
Dr. V. Prakash is currently the Vice-President of IUNS (2017-2021); President of ISNANN, INDIA; Chairman, India Region of European Hygienic Engineering Design Group, Germany; Adjunct Professor at RUAS, Bangalore, India; and Adjunct Professor at ICT, Mumbai, India. He was Former Director of CFTRI, Mysore, and Distinguished Scientist of CSIR, India. He has received more than 65 National and International awards including one of the high Civilian Awards Padmashree, Coveted Bhatnagar Award for Science and Technology and Rajyothsava awards and several Lifetime Achievement Awards from organizations like FICCI, IUFoST, in India and abroad. He is currently serving in the editorial board of many Food Science and Technology and Nutrition Journals and is in the editorial board of numerous books. He is also Chairman, Scientific Council of IUFoST. Prakash has 212 peer reviewed research publications, 55 Patents Filed and is author of 12 Books and 9 more Books are in pipeline.
Affiliations and expertise
Ramaiah Univ of Applied Sciences, India; Inst of Chemical Tech, India; Zhejiang Gongshang Univ, ChinaRead Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in South Asian Countries on ScienceDirect