Books in Food sensory science

Dietary, Sensory and Gastronomic Applications

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Tanmay Sarkar + 1 more
English

Dietary, Sensory and Gastronomic Applications: Exploring Unconventional Food Sources Volume 2, showcases how untapped food sources can be harnessed for product development. Highlighting dietary enrichment, heightened sensory experiences, and enhanced functional attributes, this book provides insights into innovative plant-based ingredient solutions for those wanting to take their products to the next level to meet myriad dietary needs in a sustainable way. Dietary, Sensory and Gastronomic Applications: Exploring Unconventional Food Sources Volume 2, takes a deep dive into exploring microbes for food production and consumption and looks at the challenges and opportunities for product shelf-life extension, texture modification, sugar substitutions and natural pigmentation enhancement. It also explores novel texturizers, emulsifiers and surfactants, and acidulants and pH regulators to achieve enhanced sensory characteristics such as mouthfeel, flavor balance and umami. The book concludes with innovations in edible packaging, the use of functional and designer lipids for the food industry and how to navigate the challenges around these new culinary innovations. A complementary volume highlighting the health, nutrition and sustainability of unconventional foods and how they can diversify diets and enhance future meals is also available.

Rapid Sensory Profiling Techniques

2nd Edition
November 1, 2022
Julien Delarue + 1 more
English
Paperback
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Rapid Sensory Profiling Techniques: Applications in New Product Development and Consumer Research, Second Edition presents the latest findings and recommendations on the proper choice and use of rapid product profiling methods. Each chapter is written by a key opinion leader on a specific method with discussions on theory, pros, cons and the application of each method that is demonstrated through a case study. This valuable resource educates and empowers those working in research and development on how to meet shorter product turnaround times at lower cost and with no compromise on quality.This book is not just needed by the scientific community, it is an essential must have in an industry challenged by a "speed to market" mantra.

Wine Tasting

4th Edition
October 2, 2022
Ronald S. Jackson
English
Hardback
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Wine Tasting: A Professional Handbook, Fourth Edition presents the latest information behind tasting, including insights on physiological, psychological and physicochemical limitations associated with sensory evaluation. The book's author notes how techniques may guide in achieving improved wine quality and adjusting production procedures to match consumer preferences, occupational hazards of professional wine tasters, and the latest information on types of wine, vineyard and winery sources of quality, and the principles of food and wine combination. Fully updated, this new edition includes coverage of the statistical aspect of wine tasting, including multiple examples to demonstrate the science of wine characteristic measurement and analysis. With its inclusion of illustrative data and testing technique descriptions, the book is ideal for both those who train members of tasting panels, those involved in designing wine tastings, and the connoisseur seeking to maximize their perception and appreciation of wine through a clear and applicable understanding of the wine tasting experience.

Case Studies on the Business of Nutraceuticals, Functional and Super Foods

1st Edition
September 14, 2022
Cristina Santini + 2 more
English
Paperback
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A volume in the Consumer Science and Strategic Marketing Series, Case Studies on the Business of Nutraceuticals considers nutraceuticals from a strategic marketing perspective, exploring consumer needs and trends as a pathway to defining novel opportunities in developing and marketing these products.In addition to highlighting the importance of consumer needs in shaping a market strategy for nutraceuticals, this book also defines emerging trends and explores recent developments in the nutraceutical industry.Containing 11 chapters, this book, explores the competitive landscape of the global and European nutraceutical market, focusing on key market drivers, consumer and product trends, and marketing and technological challenges.Case Studies on the Business of Nutraceuticals outlines the processes that lead to the introduction of new products and the entrance of new competitors in the market and highlights how a market strategy that’s focused on consumers’ needs can contribute to a company’s strategy.The case studies and examples contained in this book demonstrate how companies can employ consumer science strategies to revise existing or develop new products and are sure to be a welcomed resource by new product developers, policy makers, food scientists, academicians, and students studying related fields.

Food Structure and Functionality

1st Edition
November 17, 2020
Charis M. Galanakis
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Food Structure and Functionality helps users further understand the latest research related to food structuring and de-structuring, with an emphasis on structuring to achieve improved texture, taste perception, health and shelf-stability. Topics covered address food structure, nanotechnology and functionality, with an emphasis on the novel experimental and modeling approaches used to link structure and functionality in food. The book also covers food structure design across the lifespan, as well as design for healthcare and medical applications. Dairy matrices for oral and gut functionality is also discussed, as is deconstructing dairy matrices for the release of nutrient and flavor components. This book will benefit food scientists, technologists, engineers and physical chemists working in the whole food science field, new product developers, researchers, academics and professionals working in the food industry, including nutritionists, dieticians, physicians, biochemists and biophysicists.

Sensory Evaluation Practices

5th Edition
October 18, 2020
Herbert Stone + 2 more
English
Paperback
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Sensory Evaluation Practices, Fifth Edition, presents the latest developments and methods of sensory evaluation, including those on the front end of innovation, consumer acceptance/preferenc... multivariate statistical analysis, discrimination testing, descriptive analysis, sensory claims substantiation for advertising, and information management. Additionally, related social psychological methods, such as laddering, design thinking, emotional profiling, and applications of qualitative and consumer co-creation and immersive techniques are explored. This book will be an ideal reference for sensory professionals, technical managers, product specialists and research directors in the food, beverage, cosmetics, and other consumer products industries of all sizes.

Dietary Sugar, Salt and Fat in Human Health

1st Edition
March 6, 2020
Harry G. Preuss + 1 more
English
Paperback
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Divided into four main sections, Dietary Sugar, Salt and Fat in Human Health explores the biochemical, pharmacological and medicinal aspects related to the overindulgence of dietary salt, sugar, and fat, along with possible remedies. Beginning with a general overview, the text outlines aspects associated with advancing age and human physiology, such as different aspects of insulin resistance, the advancing age phenomenon, central fat accumulation and metabolic perturbations and the role of the modern Western diet and the influence of dietary sugar, salt, and fat, with particular focus on their relation to multiple biochemical pathophysiological pathways. The second section of the book focuses on the roles of dietary sugars and their correlation with the chronic disease epidemic, with an emphasis on carbohydrate metabolism and its biochemistry, GI absorption, the glycemic index and the influence of fructose. The historical background of dietary sugars is discussed alongside Atkin’s hypothesis, and an overview of the correlation between dietary fibre and the glycemic index, including a chapter on sugar addiction. Section three contains an exhaustive review of the influence of dietary salt and its diverse mechanistic aspects, including salt-sensitive hypertension, contribution of two steroid receptor pathways, vascular NO, intrarenal RAAS system and angiotensin. The fourth section highlights the biochemistry of dietary saturated, polyunsaturated and trans fat and its influence on human health and various diseases, and further explores NAFLD and gender specific problems. Chapters in this section also investigate the benefits of the Mediterranean diet as well as myths related to cholesterol. Collected and carefully organized for researchers in nutrition, physiology, epidemiology, or sensory science, this book will also benefit general practitioners, surgeons, nurses, health professionals and practitioners, and students studying the role of diet in cardiometabolic disorders and disease.

Breakfast Cereals and How They Are Made

3rd Edition
January 9, 2020
Alicia A. Perdon + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Breakfast Cereals and How They Are Made: Raw Materials, Processing, and Production, Third Edition, covers the transformation of a cereal grain across the supply chain with oversight of the entire lifecycle – from ingredient, to finished product. The book provides essential Information for food product developers on the effect of ingredients and process conditions on breakfast cereal quality. All aspects of the processing of cereals grains into finished products is covered, from batching and cooking, toasting and tempering, coating, the inclusion of additional ingredients, and packaging information. In addition, the book covers the chemistry and economics of cereal crops. Essential reading for all product developers working in the cereal industry, this book will also be of interest to academic researchers and postgraduate students in both cereal science and food processing.

Context

1st Edition
April 17, 2019
Herbert L. Meiselman
English
Paperback
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Context: The Effects of Environment on Product Design and Evaluation addresses the environment, or context, in which we consume products and the impact of context on choice and acceptability. The book explores what context is, how it influences design by specialists, and acceptance by consumers. Chapters discuss the basics of context, food and drink in context, testing a range of other products, and other contextual variables. Historically, research on context has been done in the laboratory and various natural locations, but rapid growth in other methods to study context, including evoked contexts, immersive contexts, virtual reality contexts, and more have widened research possibilities. Appealing to the professional, academic and commercial markets, this book will be of interest to those who conduct research in product development and product testing, to those who study what controls product usage, including eating from the health perspective, and to those who make decisions about product and space development.

Case Studies in the Wine Industry

1st Edition
November 27, 2018
Cristina Santini + 1 more
English
Paperback
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Case Studies in the Wine Industry aims to close the gap between academic researchers and industry professionals through real world scenarios and field-based research. The book explores how consumer and sensory science has been implemented in the wine industry to achieve certain goals, including the rejuvenation of product image, the shaping of new market places, the achievement of market differentiation and geographical diffusion, the achievement of customer loyalty, and the promotion of traditional features of the product. There is an emerging demand from wine industry professionals and undergraduate and postgraduate students who attend business and agricultural studies courses who want to gain practical information through real cases and field-based research.

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