Food Bioconversion

Food Bioconversion, Volume Two in the Handbook of Food Bioengineering series is an interdisciplinary resource of fundamental information on waste recovery and biomaterials under certain environmental conditions. The book provides information on how living organisms can be used to transform waste into compounds that can be used in food, and how specialized living cells in plants, animals and water can convert the most polluting agents into useful non-toxic products in a sustainable way. This great reference on the bioconversion of industrial waste is ideal in a time when food resources are limited and entire communities starve.

Presents extraction techniques of biological properties to enhance food’s functionality, i.e. functional foods or nutraceuticalsProvides detailed information on waste material recovery issues Compares different techniques to help advance research and develop new applicationsIncludes research solutions of different biological treatments to produce foods with antibiotic properties, i.e. probioticsExplores how bioconversion technologies are essential for research outcomes to increase high quality food production

1. Bioconversion of food waste: a promising sustainable approach 2. Selected bioconversions of agricultural residues and by-products to edible mushrooms of high dietetic value 3. Energy and material recovery from fruit and vegetable waste by co-digestion with sludge: Internal environment of digester and methanogenic pathway 4. Incorporation And Bioconversion Of Omega-3 Fatty Acids In Farm raising Of Enriched Fish 5. Biotechnological production of conjugated fatty acids with biological properties 6. The Importance Of Microbial And Enzymatic Bioconversions Of Isoflavones In Bioactive Compounds 7. Food Waste Bioconversion by Genetically Modified Microorganisms: From Bioinformatics to Biotechnology 8. Prebiotic – Probiotic Relationships: The Genetic Fundamentals of Polysaccharides Conversion by LAB and Bifidobacteria 9. Plant By-products and Food Industry Waste: A Source of Nutraceuticals, Biopolymers and Biofuels 10. Recovery of phenolic compounds from olive oil mill waste waters by physicochemical methodologies 11. Extraction Of Pectin From Food Waste And By-Products 12. Bioactivity Profiling Of Peptides From Food Proteins 13. From oil industry by-products to bioactive peptides; Enzymatic processing of oilseed proteins into tailored food ingredients 14. Microbial-Catalyzed Biotransformation of Bioactive Natural Products 15. Wealth Creation Through Waste