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Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in the Balkans

  • 1st Edition - April 30, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Alina-Ioana Gostin, Diana Bogueva, Vladimir Kakurinov
  • Language: English

Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in the Balkans s introduces and analyzes traditional foods from the Balkans. Beginning with the eating habits in Balkans, this book unfolds t… Read more

Description

Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in the Balkans s introduces and analyzes traditional foods from the Balkans. Beginning with the eating habits in Balkans, this book unfolds the history of use, origin, compositions and preparation, ingredient origin, nutritional aspects, and the effects on health for various foods and food products of the region. Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in the Balkans also addresses local and international regulations and provides suggestions on how to harmonize these regulations to promote global availability of these foods. A volume in a series co-produced with Global Harmonization Initiative, Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in the Balkans is sure to be a welcomed reference for nutrition researchers and professionals, including nutritionists, dieticians, food scientists, food technologists, toxicologists, regulators, and product developers as well as educators, and students.

Key features

  • Analyzes nutritional and health claims in the Balkan region
  • Includes traditional foods from the Balkans
  • Explores both scientific and anecdotal diet-based health claims
  • Examines if foods meet regulatory requirements and how to remedy noncompliance
  • Reviews the influence of historical eating habits on today’s diets

Readership

Nutrition researchers and professionals, including nutritionists, dieticians, food scientists, food technologists, toxicologists, regulators, and product developers as well as educators and students

Table of contents

Prologue

Chin-Kun Wang

Foreword

Boyko Nadiya

1. Traditional Balkan foods in a global context: an introduction

Alina-Ioana Gostin

Import 16-Oct-2019 10:08

2. History of eating habits in the Balkans

Alina-Ioana Gostin and Diana Bogueva

3. Balkan food cultures and traditions

Evgenia Krasteva-Blagoeva and Diana Bogueva

4. Food, nutrition and health in Albania

Diola Dosti, Orana Sinani and Indrit Tila

5. Food, nutrition and health in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Slavica Samardzic, Gordana Đurić, Vesna Rudic Grujic, Gordana Radovanovic, Tarik Dizdarevic and Suzana Đorđević-Milošević

6. Food, nutrition and health in Bulgaria

Diana Bogueva, Magdalena Apostolova and Svetla Danova

7. Food, nutrition and health in Croatia

Daniela Čačić Kenjerić and Darja Sokolić

8. Food, nutrition and health in Greece

Tryfon Adamidis, Maria Papageorgiou and Kyriaki Zinoviadou

9. Food, nutrition and health in Kosovo

Agim Rysha

10. Food, nutrition and health in Macedonia

Vladimir Kakurinov, Valentina Pavlova and Nadica llievska

11. Food, nutrition and health in Montenegro

Aleksandra Martinovic and Slavko Mirecki

12. Food, nutrition and health in Serbia

Suzana Đorđević-Milošević, Jasna Mastilović, Svetlana Stanišić and Nataša Kilibarda

13. Food, nutrition and health in Slovenia

Maša Knez Hrnčič, Darija Cör and Željko Knez

14. Food, nutrition and health in Romania

Corina-Aurelia Zugravu, Dana Gafiţianu and Anca Ioana Nicolau

15. Food, nutrition and health in Moldova

Rodica Sturza and Aliona Ghendov-Moşanu

16. Food, nutrition and health in Turkey, the European part

Birsen Bulut-Solak

17. Common nutrition and health issues

Dzengis Jasar and Biljana Curcic

18. Common regulatory issues and proposals to harmonise regulations

Iuliana Vintilă

19. Traditional Balkan Foods:Future Outlook

Ismail Hakkı Tekiner

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 21, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Alina-Ioana Gostin

Dr. Dipl. Eng. Alina-Ioana Gostin, originally from Romania, is a lecturer at College of Food, University College Birmingham, UK, teaching in the areas of Food Science and Technology, Food Safety, Diet and Nutrition. Dr Gostin’s research interests focus on technologies that improve quality and safety of foods. She is also the director of the Ambassador Programme of the Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI).
Affiliations and expertise
College of Food, University College Birmingham, UK

DB

Diana Bogueva

Diana Bogueva is a social scientist, specializing in sustainable food consumption, generational consumer behavior, food and masculinity, alternative proteins, novel food processing technologies, and food sustainability and harmonization. Her work has received several prestigious awards, including at the 24th and 28th Gourmand Awards, often likened to the Oscars for food books, for her edited book "Environmental, Health and Business Opportunities in the New Meat Alternatives Market" (2019) and co-authored book "Food in a Planetary Emergency" (2022). Her recent co-edited book "Nutrition Science, Marketing Nutrition, Health Claims, and Public Policy" (2023) is a finalist at the Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards. Diana is currently a Research Fellow at the Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute, where she also teaches the "People and Planet" unit as part of the Masters in Sustainability and Built Environment. She is the President of the Global Harmonization Initiative, headquartered in Vienna, and serves as a Board Member and Chair of the Consumer Perception Working Group.

Affiliations and expertise
Centre for Advanced Food Enginomics, University of Sydney, Open Universities Australia - Curtin and Global Harmonization Initiative, Australia

VK

Vladimir Kakurinov

Dr. Vladimir Kakurinov is a Full Professor in Food Microbiology and Food Quality and Safety. He worked at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University and the Veterinary Medicine Faculty at St. Kliment Ohridski University, both in Republic of Macedonia. Now, he is founder and Executive Director of Consulting and Training Centre KEY dealing with international projects.
Affiliations and expertise
Founder, Consulting and Training Centre KEY, Macedonia

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