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Food Processing Technology: Principles and Practice, Fifth Edition includes emerging trends and developments in food processing. The book has been fully updated to provide comprehensive, up-to-date technical information. For each food processing unit operation, theory and principles are first described, followed by equipment used commercially and its operating conditions, the effects of the operation on micro-organisms, and the nutritional and sensory qualities of the foods concerned. Part I describes basic concepts; Part II describes operations that take place at ambient temperature; Part III describes processing using heat; Part IV describes processing by removing heat; and Part V describes post-processing operations. This book continues to be the most comprehensive reference in the field, covering all processing unit operations in a single volume. The title brings key terms and definitions, sample problems, recommended further readings and illustrated processes.
List of contents
PART I - BASIC PRINCIPLES1. Properties of foods
PART II: AMBIENT-TEMPERATURE PROCESSING 2. Raw material preparation
3. Extraction and separation of food components
4. Size reduction
5. Mixing, forming and coating
6. Food biotechnology
7. Minimal processing
PART III: PROCESSING BY APPLICATION OF HEATProcessing using steam or water 8. Blanching
9. Industrial cooking
10. Pasteurisation
11. Heat sterilisation
12. Evaporation and distillation
Processing using hot air or heated surfaces 13. Dehydration
14. Smoking
15. Baking and roasting
16. Extrusion cooking
Processing using hot oils
17. Frying
Electromagnetic processing using direct and radiated energy
18. Dielectric, ohmic and infrared heating
PART IV: PROCESSING BY REMOVAL OF HEAT
19. Heat removal by refrigeration
21. Chilling
22. Freezing
23. Freeze Drying and Freeze Concentration
PART V POST-PROCESSING OPERATIONS
24. Packaging
25. Filling and sealing of containers
26. Materials handling, storage and distribution
About the author
Dr Peter Fellows is a senior consultant in food processing, working mostly in Africa and Asia. Over the last 30 years, he has worked extensively as a food technologist in over twenty countries, supporting institutions that promote small-scale agro-industrial development programmes. He is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Brookes University in the UK, and has held the UNESCO Chair in Post-Harvest Technology at Makerere University, Uganda. In addition to Food processing technology, he has written 22 books and numerous articles on different aspects of food processing.
