Description
Aromatic Herbs in Food: Bioactive Compounds, Processing, and Applications thoroughly explores three critical dimensions: properties of bioactive compounds, recovery and applications. The book covers the most trending topics in herbs' applications, putting emphasis on the health components of spices and herbs, their culinary use, their application for the treatment of functional gastrointestinal disorders, quality and safety requirements for usage in foods, processing, extraction technologies, green extraction technologies, encapsulation of recovered bioactives, applications and interactions with food components, applications as food supplements for weight loss, usage in active food packaging, the applications of rosemary and sage extracts, and much more.This book is ideal for food scientists, technologists, engineers and chemists working in the whole food science field. In addition, nutrition researchers working on food applications and food processing will find the content very valuable.- Covers all the important aspects of herbs, such as properties, processing, recovery issues and their applications- Brings the health components of spices and herbs, their culinary use and applications for the treatment of functional gastrointestinal disorders- Explores herbs' processing, extraction technologies, green extraction technologies, encapsulation of recovered bioactives, applications, and interactions with food components
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to nutraceuticals, medicinal foods and herbs2. The health components of spices and herbs3. Mediterranean aromatic herbs and their culinary use4. aromatic profile of the rhizomes from the ginger family used in food5. Herbs drying6. Analysis of herbal bioactives7. Extraction of bioactive compounds and essential oils from Mediterranean herbs by green innovative techniques8. Encapsulation of herb extracts9. Use of herbs and their bioactive compounds in active food packaging10. Herbal slimming products and natural sexual enhancers11. Legislation about aromatic herbs in food
