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Including 30 tables, 40 figures, 20 percent more species, and more than 2000 references, this book provides an overview of spoilage yeasts, delivering comprehensive coverage of the biodiversity and ecology of yeasts in a variety food types and commodities.

Offers students with practical knowledge of the fundamentals of designing, executing, and reporting the results of a research project. This work includes fresh exercises in the areas of physical properties, lipids, proteins, and gelatin. It includes a brief introduction to each laboratory exercise and a listing of materials needed.

Contains data on the physical, thermal, and thermodynamic properties of foods. This edition focuses on measurement techniques, basic data compilation for diversified foods, and the generic models for foods or for groups of foods. It also covers properties data and terminology as well as food processing and preservation applications.

Describes, explains, and discusses biotechnology within the context of human nutrition, food production, and food processing. Suitable for undergraduate students in Food Science and Nutrition who do not have a background in molecular biology, this book provides explanations of various technically difficult aspects of biotechnology.

Examines the physical, chemical, and biochemical factors affecting food quality. This book emphasizes the effects that water activity, glass transition, and plasticization have on temperature, water content, and time-dependant phenomena affecting the shelf life of low and intermediate moisture foods.

Based on lab experiments developed for food science and microbiology courses at the University of Massachusetts, this manual presents well-tested and outlined experiments for use in a one-semester introductory food microbiology course. It also features 14 exercises that incorporate traditional and rapid method testing techniques.

Introduces the frameworks, methods, designs, algorithms, tests, and implementation of data acquisition, analysis, modeling, prediction, and control in automation for food engineering. Using various examples and case studies from food engineering projects, this book introduces basic methods systematically and describes advanced techniques.