Functional Cereals and Cereal Foods

Properties, Functionality and Applications

Sneh Punia Bangar, Anil Kumar Siroha

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Springer International Publishing AG
30 August 2022

Analytical chemistry; Food & beverage technology

In recent years, consumers are concentrating more on the health benefits of food in order to preserve a healthy lifestyle and therefore becoming more aware of the relationship between diet and disease. This has resulted in a gradual shift from animal-derived to plant-based meals. Functional foods have turned into one of the rapidly expanding areas of the food industry due to the increasing awareness of consumers working to prevent lethal diseases like cancer, diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. Functional foods are seen as the food or food components that manifest efficiency in protecting from diseases and attaining a healthier lifestyle by administering additional benefits on human physiology and metabolic functions apart from basic nutritional requirements of the body.

Cereals hold a prominent place in this new market. Cereals and cereal foods are important energy sources and many phytochemicals such as dietary fiber, resistant starch, vitamins, minerals, lignans, phytic acid and phenolic compounds that provide a variety of health benefits. Eating functional cereal foods is an easy method to increase nutrients associated with whole grains without changing eating habits.

Functional Cereals and Cereal Foods: Properties, Functionality and Applications comprehensively covers the Chemistry and nutritional composition of functional cereals components, their functionality and therapeutic significance, current innovations and functional approaches in improving attributes and biofortification and quality improvement of cereal products. The different types of functional cereals and their unlimited opportunities for the production of functional foods are covered in full, including gluten-free products and all the newest cereal processing technologies. For researchers in search of a fully up-to-date look at functional cereal foods and technologies and their important place on the current market, this text provides a timely andcomprehensive overview.

Edited by: Sneh Punia Bangar, Anil Kumar Siroha
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2022 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 846g
ISBN: 9783031056109
ISBN 10: 3031056108
Pages: 439
Publication Date: 30 August 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sneh Punia is a Researcher in the Department of Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences at Clemson University in Clemson, USA Sajid Maqsood is a professor and Researcher in the Food Science Department at College of Food and Agriculture at Emirates University in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates Anil Kumar Siroha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology at Chaudhary Devi Lal University in Sirsa, India