Food Processing: Principles and Applications

Food Processing: Principles and Applications is a comprehensive resource that explores the basic and applied aspects of food processing. It describes the physical, chemical, and microbiological basis for each method of preservation. Particular emphasis is placed on the application of three of the most universally used commercial processes: thermal processing, freezing, and dehydration.

Thermal processing – perhaps the most widely used technology in the world – is examined in thorough discus...