Books in Food and health

A Practical Guide for Interpreting and Constructing Nutritional Labeling

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
María Patricia López Ramírez + 1 more
English

The nutritional labeling system worldwide for consumer packaged goods is complex. It lacks uniform guidelines for food industry professionals that would help them better convey the impact of nutrition for dietary choices. A Practical Guide for Interpreting and Constructing Nutritional Labeling, gives a global view of nutritional and front package labeling and offers solutions to help standardize the nutritional table process. Through global historical milestones and various case studies from around the world, it allows readers to see firsthand how nutritional tables are interpreted for specific diets and constructed to maximize health and well-being. A Practical Guide for Interpreting and Constructing Nutritional Labeling, offers a nutritional roadmap for a more standardized approach to labeling. Through a series of case studies from the U.S., Switzerland, Colombia, Chile, the Netherlands and more, readers will be shown practical tools for interpreting front-of-pack labeling while gaining a better understanding of the innerworkings of each of these countries nutritional labeling processes. Readers will also be given strategies to navigate regulatory issues and gain insight into the future of nutritional labeling.

Fermented Foods for Wellness

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Muhammad Shahzad Aslam + 2 more
English

As autoimmune disease, gut disorders and mental health conditions continue to plague society, food has become the forefront of medicine to help fight disease and maintain better health and well-being. Fermented Foods for Wellness: Understanding Processes and Biosensors, examines how fermented foods can impact an anti-inflammatory response in the body, thus reducing chronic inflammation, the cause of myriad diseases. Part one of Fermented Foods for Wellness: Understanding Processes and Biosensors, takes a deep dive into the landscape of inflammation and its role in various health conditions such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease, gastrointestinal and digestive health, arthritis, and cardiovascular and mental health. It looks at the role of fermented foods like miso, kefir, and the superfood turmeric and how their increased bioavailability can reduce an inflammatory response in the body. In section two, titled The Industrial Fermentation Process, experts decipher complex flavor compounds that characterize fermented foods through biosensor technology. Authors highlight the evolving landscape of sustainable fermentation, and the transformative impact this approach has on various industries to create ideal conditions for microbial growth. Such approaches can optimize bioreactors for future new product development.

Nutrition and Women's Health

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Prashant Lakshaman Pingale + 1 more
English

The impact of nutrition on human health has become the forefront of discussion with everyone from healthcare providers and research scientists to nutritionists and dietitians. However, it's the lack of targeted research for women’s health and nutritional dietary needs at various life stages that is lacking. Nutrition and Women’s Health: Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals, and Integrative Strategies, is a comprehensive guide that exposes the benefits of nutraceuticals and functional foods for the prevention, treatment, and recurrence of disease through various life stages. From adolescence through menopause, Nutrition and Women’s Health: Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals and Integrative Strategies, offers insights on how to manage health through nutrition. Chapters include nutritional modules for sources of nutrients and bioactive compounds for teenage nutrition, the interaction of sex hormones, menopause, the management of polycystic ovary syndrome, fertility, bone, skin and heart health and more. Authors will also highlight the underlying causes of various pathophysiology conditions linked to nutrition, and how careful diet plans or daily nutrition selection can help to avoid problems across various age groups.

Fermented Foods in Health and Disease Prevention

2nd Edition
September 1, 2025
Juana Frías + 2 more
English
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eBook
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Fermented Foods in Health and Disease Prevention, Second Edition examines the significance of fermented foods to public health. The book presents the latest scientific evidence, showing the health-promoting components produced upon fermentation from a diversity of food matrices. The content includes the definition and characterization of traditional and innovative fermented foods, their mechanisms of action, and the evidence for effects on health and disease in humans. Putative health effects associated with direct interactions between the ingested live microorganisms and the host (probiotic effect), or indirectly, through ingestion of microbial metabolites and products of fermentation (biogenic effect) are discussed.This book will provide the food industry with new insights on the development of value-added fermentation, while also presenting nutritionists and dieticians with a useful resource to help them develop strategies to assist in the prevention of disease or to slow its onset and severity.

Seaweed in Health and Disease Prevention

2nd Edition
September 1, 2025
Joël Fleurence + 1 more
English

Seaweed in Health and Disease Prevention, Second Edition updates knowledge on the therapeutic and functional activities related to algae and their compounds. The book includes a new chapter on the use of seaweed and seaweed products in the current war against viral-based exposures, a result of the massive research effort stemming from the global Covid Pandemic, along with the improvement of the nutritional value of algae via enzymatic or fermentation treatments. These treatments are at the origin of the production of oligosaccharides, presenting interesting biological activities for the human microbiota.Chapter updates on seaweed’s biochemical characteristics such as proteins, lipids, and polysaccharides are also addressed.

The Science and Culture of Latin American Foods

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Sonia G. Sáyago-Ayerdi + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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The Science and Culture of Latin American Foods: Harnessing Ingredients for Health combines science and technology to demonstrate the importance of rescuing and preserving traditional and ancestral knowledge to exploit the functional benefits of the regions’ many roots, plants, seeds, insects, and more. Divided into four sections, Ingredients, Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods, and Cuisine, the book discusses the sustainable development of these ingredients while highlighting origin, production, classification, and medicinal properties. Readers will discover the potential of potent bioactive peptides derived from native foods like cacao, chipilín leaves, and Huauzontle, a pre-Hispanic ingredient thriving and surviving in Mexican cuisine.In addition, they will learn how Asia and Africa influence Latin American cuisine and about the importance these regional culinary dishes have in global gastronomy today.

Nutritional Strategies, Predictive Models, and Sustainable Policies

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Sandeep K. Panda + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Nutritional Strategies, Predictive Models, and Sustainable Policies brings together scientists, professors, and policymakers from over 10 countries to cover strategies and approaches to improve human health by focusing on the nutritional needs of children, pregnant women, and patients from around the world. Sections cover existing policies in specific geographical areas, critical reviews on the scientific updates of maternal, pediatric, and geriatric nutrition and how the Pandemic disrupted nutritional strategies, review predictive models on different nutrition categories for certain diseases and cancers, and highlight international and regional policies related to nutrition in war affected countries.

Artificial Intelligence in Food Science

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Tanmay Sarkar + 1 more
English
eBook
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Artificial Intelligence in Food Science Transforming Food and Bioprocess Development, looks at the advancements in both AI and Machine Learning (ML) and the potential for leveraging these latest technologies to optimize and elevate various aspects of the food sciences. From ingredient discovery and recipe formulation to flavor profiling, quality control and bioprocess optimization, Artificial Intelligence in Food Science Transforming Food and Bioprocess Development, will show nutritionists, food scientists and researchers and developers how they can enhance efficiency while innovating in their field. Through data analysis, predictive modelling, case studies and industry examples of successful AI and ML implementation, this book also highlights the benefits, challenges, and potential limitations of using AI and ML techniques, while providing insights into best practices. Readers will discover how AI and ML intersect with nutrition, traceability and blockchain technology, food waste valorization, shelf-life, recipe and new product development, food safety, and more.

Sustainable Plant Foods

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Sajad Ahmad Wani + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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As global concerns over excessive animal consumption threaten both the planet and human health, Sustainable Plant Foods: A Scientific Approach to Alternative Food Sources, offers a scientific view into the cutting-edge world of plant-based nutrition and its transformative potential to heal and nourish. Addressing issues surrounding animal agriculture’s impact on well-being and the environment, this book shows a necessary need to shift from a diet of ecologically damaging animal foods to more plant-based solutions for optimal human health, nutrition and a more sustainable planet.Sustainable Plant Foods: A Scientific Approach to Alternative Food Sources, takes a deep dive into new developments and sustainable challenges of plant-based alternatives. Authors discuss the nutritional benefits and overall potential of underutilized fruits, vegetables and legumes while also highlighting their sensory appeal. Chapters also address how sustainable plant diets can help overcome the problems associated with a diet of overprocessed foods. Chapters on extrusion, muscle fiber simulation, fermentation and scaffolding detail methods to develop clean label plant-based alternatives to eggs, meat, cheese and milk while mycoprotein and edible plant oils are introduced as the future of nonmeat protein and nutrition. Authors also discuss strategies and challenges for the valorization of plant food waste and by-products produced from the food industry.

Therapeutic Potential of Medicinal Plants

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Mila Emerald + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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When synthetic drugs produce adverse side effects, practitioners may look to natural alternatives to alleviate symptoms or complement existing treatment. Therapeutic Potential of Medicinal Plants: The Science Behind Natural Remedies, investigates the bioactive compounds and functionality of medicinal plants and herbs which are recommended to help certain health conditions and overall well-being while highlighting cultivation that can be done sustainably to promote biodiversity conservation. Written by over 50 experts in the fields of nutrition, organic food, fertility, phytopharmacology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, plant botanicals, and herbal medicine, “Therapeutic Potential of Medicinal Plants: The Science Behind Natural Remedies,” introduces readers to the the chemical composition of over 75 plants, herbs, grains and seeds while highlighting their anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and immunomodulatory effects to improve overall well being and manage certain conditions such as diabetes, osteoarthritis, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Bioactive compounds, essential oils and phytochemicals in certain plants and marine compounds are reviewed for their efficacy to help improve gynecological health, alleviate menopausal symptoms and lower blood pressure. The book also discusses the toxicity and safety implications associated with the use of medicinal herbs during pregnancy and other life stages.

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