Dietary Fiber: Properties, Recovery, and Applications

Dietary Fiber: Properties, Recovery and Applications explores the properties and health effects of dietary fiber, along with new trends in recovery procedures and applications. The book covers the most trending topics of dietary fiber applications, emphasizing polyphenol properties, bioavailability and metabolomics, target sources, recovery and emerging technologies, technological aspects, stability during processing, and applications in the food, beverage and nutraceutical sectors. Written by a team of experts in the field of dietary fiber, this book is ideal for chemists, food scientists, technologists, new product developers and academics.

• Thoroughly explores dietary fiber properties and health effects in light of new trends in recovery procedures and applications
• Covers issues in three critical dimensions: properties, recovery and applications
• Focuses on applications in food additives, as well as recovery from plant processing by-products

Food scientists, technologists, engineers and chemists working with food applications and food processing. Researchers, academics and professionals working in the food industry

1. Definitions and regulatory perspectives of dietary fiber
2. Classification and technological properties
3. Sustainable sources of dietary fiber
4. Dietary fiber and metabolism
5. Interaction and effect of dietary fiber and phenolic compounds after ingestion
6. Dietary fiber and nutrition
7. Health effect of dietary fiber against diseases
8. Analytical procedures
9. Sustainable sources of dietary fiber
10. Conventional and emerging extraction technologies
11. Prebiotic and dairy applications
12. Applications in bakery products
13. Applications in meat products