Texture in Food ：Solid Foods ( Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition )

Publication subTitle ：Solid Foods

Publication series ：Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition

Author： Kilcast David

Publisher： Elsevier Science‎

Publication year： 2004

E-ISBN: 9781855738362

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781855737242

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781855737242

Subject： TS2 food industry

Language： ENG

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Description

Texture is one of the most important attributes used by consumers to assess food quality. With its distinguished editor and international team of contributors, this authoritative book summarises the wealth of recent research on what influences texture in solid foods and how it can be controlled to maximise product quality.

The first part of the book reviews research on understanding how consumers experience texture when they eat, and how they perceive and describe key textural qualities such as crispness. Part two considers the instrumental techniques used for analysing texture. It includes chapters on force/deformation and sound input techniques, near infrared spectroscopy (NIR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The final part examines how the texture of particular foods may be better understood and improved. A number of chapters review ways of controlling the texture of fruits and vegetables, including the role of plant structure and compounds, the handling of raw materials and technologies such as freezing and vacuum infusion. A final group of chapters discuss the texture of cereal foods, including bread, rice, pasta and fried food.

Texture in food Volume 2: Solid foods is a standard reference for the food industry. It is accompanied by a companion volume on the texture of semi-solid foods.