Traditional Starch Food Products

Application and Processing

1st Edition - September 27, 2024
Editors: Marney Pascoli Cereda, Olivier Francois Vilpoux
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 8 4 4 - 3
eBook ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 8 4 5 - 0

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Traditional Starch Food Products: Application and Processing is the fourth volume of the “Underground Starchy Crops of South American Origin” book series. Organized in five volumes, this series brings information on the applied level of producing and using starch from a range of plants grown in tropical and subtropical areas that have South American origin.

This book describes the use of starchy roots, tubers and rhizomes in food, medicine, local culture, and religion, emphasizing the vital roles they play in indigenous Andean or Amazonian communities, offering cultural identity and economic value.

The book’s comprehensive exploration highlights the multifaceted world of underground starchy crops, emphasizing the challenges to their successful development and preservation.

Edited by a team of experts with solid background on starch extraction research, these books are aimed at all those involved in research and development, new technology processes and quality control and legislation in the field of starch.

1. Introduction—underground starchy crops in food use

Part 1: General Themes

2. Cooking of cassava roots: problems and solutions

3. Food application of starch in complex media

4. Roots and tubers processing for cooking purposes: ready-to-eat, vacuum and frozen products, French fries, and chips

Part 2: Traditional foods in lowland regions

5. Roots and tubers in Colombia’s culinary and food traditions

6. Traditional Amerindian cassava-based foods and drinks in the Amazon region

7. Traditional cassava foods in the Brazilian state of Para´: tucupi, tacaca´, manic¸oba, and others

8. Brazilians’ cassava flours and derivates

9. Etanol, spirits and beer produced from underground starchy raw materials

10. Use of arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea L.) and canna (Canna edulis Ker) for the formulation of products, including baked and confectionery staple goods

11. Traditional uses, processing, and markets: the case of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.)

Part 3: Traditional foods in andean region

12. Traditional uses, processes, and markets: the case of Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum Ruı´z & Pav.)

13. Traditional uses, processes, and markets: the case of mauka (Mirabilis expansa [Ruı´z & Pav.] Standl.)

14. Traditional uses, processes, and markets: the case of maca (Lepidium meyenii Walp.)

15. Traditional uses, processes, and markets: the case of Yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius [Poepp.] H.Rob.)

16. Traditional uses, processes, and markets: the case of arracacha (Arracacia xanthorrhiza Bancroft)

17. Traditional uses, processes, and markets of native potatoes (Solanum spp.)

18. Ajipa (Pachyrhizus ahipa [Wedd.] Parodi): traditional use, process, marketplace, issues, and outlook

19. Traditional uses, processes, and markets: the case of oca (Oxalis tuberosa Molina)

20. Traditional uses, processes, and markets of ulluco (Ullucus tuberosus Caldas)

21. Traditional uses, processes, and markets: the case of achira (Canna indica L.)

22. Traditional uses, processes, and markets: the case of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)

Marney Pascoli Cereda

Marney Pascoli Cereda, Ph.D. has graduated in Agronomic Engineering at University of São Paulo, Brazil. She idealized and was the first Director of a Research Centre specialized in tropical starches. For her activities in research, she received in 2000 the Medal of Merit from the São Paulo Government. She also realized post-doctoral internships in Spain, France and England and technical visits in China, Thailand, Japan, India and in most Central and South American countries. Her researches focus mainly in food technology and development. In food technology she works mainly with food security, food safety and the use of agroindustry’s wastes. In rural agroindustry’s, she works in the development of processes in social technology and valorization of family farming products production by innovative technologies. She developed 3 patents and other 6 are in analysis process. From 2018 she remains an independent researcher and coordinates the Agro: Research, Processes and Products Laboratories.

Affiliations and expertise

Researcher, Agro: Research, Processes and Products Laboratories, Campo Grande, Brazil

Olivier Francois Vilpoux

Olivier François Vilpoux, Ph.D. has graduated in Agronomic Engineering at “Institut Supérieur D'agriculture” (1991), in France, with a Master’s in Business from the Institut de “Gestion Internationale en Agro Alimentaire” (1992) and a PhD in Business from the “Institut National Polythecnique de Lorraine” (1997), France. From 2004 to 2019 he was a professor at the Catholic University of Campo Grande (UCDB) and Professor of the Master and Doctorate Program in Local Development (UCDB), Brazil. From 2014 to 2019 he has been professor of the Doctorate in business at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. Currently he is professor of the Master of Management and Environmental Technology at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT). He works mainly on the following themes: collective action, cooperatives and family farming.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor, Federal University of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

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