Modifying Food Texture: Novel Ingredients and Processing Techniques

Modifying Food Texture, Volume 1: Novel Ingredients and Processing Techniques discusses texture as an important aspect of consumer food acceptance and preference, and the fact that specific consumer groups, including infants, the elderly, and dysphagia patients require texture-modified foods.

Topics covered include ingredients and processing techniques used in texture modification of foods, an overview of food texture issues, the novel use of processing techniques for texture modification, and the uses of food ingredients in texture-modified foods.

Discusses texture as an important aspect of consumer food acceptance and preferencePresents findings and tactics that address the special needs of infants, the elderly, and dysphagia patients Topics covered include ingredients and processing techniques used in texture modification of foods, along with an overview of food texture issues, amongst others

Preface

Part One Food texture: an overview

1 Introduction: an overview of the importance of food texture modification

Jianshe Chen, University of Leeds, UK

Part Two Novel use of food ingredients for food texture modification

2 Emulsifiers as food texture modifiers

Lin Chen, Guangdong University of Technology, China

3 Proteins as food texture modifiers

Christos Ritzoulis, ATEI of Thessaloniki, Greece

4 Enzymes as food texture modifiers

Alan Kelly, University College Cork, Ireland

5 Oils, fats and fat replacers as food texture modifiers

Bahareh Emadzadeh, Research Institute of Food Science and Technology (RIFST), Iran

Part Three Novel processing techniques for food texture modification

6 Improved thermal processing for food texture modification

Brijesh Tiwari, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland

7 Emulsion and emulsification for structure and texture development

David McClements, University of Massachusetts, USA

8 Phase behaviour of biopolymers and controlled phase separation for texture modification

Hassan Firoozmand, Ryerson University, Canada

9 Food gels in texture-modified foods

Magnus Hattrem, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Part Four Modifying the texture of specific food commodities

10 Texture of breakfast cereals and extruded products

Frederic Robin, Nestlé

11 Texture modification of soy-based products

Xiao-Quan Yang, South China University of Technology, China