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This volume details practical protocols and theoretical foundations for analyzing major and minor food components. Chapters guide readers on diverse range of food constituents, including macronutrients, micronutrients, vitamins, pigments, and volatile compounds. Written in the format of the Methods and Protocols in Food Science series, chapters list necessary materials and methods for readily reproducible protocols.
Authoritative and cutting-edge, Food Chemistry: Basic Protocols aims to be comprehensive guide for researchers in the field.
List of contents
Analytical methods to assess moisture in foods.- Water activity.- Extraction and total lipid quantification.- Identification and quantification of fatty acids in meat and fish.- Analysis of food sterols by gas chromatography.- Analysis of sterols oxidation products (SOPs) in food, by gas chromatography.- Total Protein.- Quantitation of amine in food proteins and hydrolyzed proteins using ortho- phthalaldehyde .- Analysis of free and total amino acid and biogenic amines by Liquid Injection Gas Chromatography (LI-GC).- Techno-Functional Properties of Proteins.- Carbohydrates Analysis by High-Performance Anion-Exchange Chromatography with Pulsed Amperometric Detector (HPAEC-PAD).- Determination of the dietary fiber.- Starch method in foods: Total starch determination.- Analysis of Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs).- Analysis of vitamin D and its respective vitamers by liquid chromatography with triple quadrupole mass spectrometry.- Tocopherol Analysis In Animal Tissues.- Vitamin C.- Analysis of thiamin and its respective vitamers by high performance liquid chromatography
Summary
This volume details practical protocols and theoretical foundations for analyzing major and minor food components. Chapters guide readers on diverse range of food constituents, including macronutrients, micronutrients, vitamins, pigments, and volatile compounds. Written in the format of the Methods and Protocols in Food Science series, chapters list necessary materials and methods for readily reproducible protocols.
Authoritative and cutting-edge, Food Chemistry: Basic Protocols aims to be comprehensive guide for researchers in the field.
