Functional Foods: Concept to Product
Author: Glenn R Gibson
From getting optimum nutrition during pregnancy to preventing osteoporosis in the elderly, consumer health consciousness spans all generations. Products like calcium-enriched milk with folic acid, cholesterol-reducing margarine, and energy sports bars are filling the grocery shelves. These "functional foods" are hot items for those concerned about their dietary intake, but do they live up to the claims, or is it just another marketing ploy? Functional Foods: Concept to Product presents step-by-step coverage of the development, from identifying, to testing, to producing, to marketing the products. By examining soft drinks, cereal and baby foods, baked goods, confectionery, dairy products, spreads, meat products, and animal feeds, it discusses modes of functional food operation such as: Vitamin and mineral fortification Cholesterol reduction Dietary Fiber Probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics Antioxidants Phytochemicals Herbs and botanicals Functional foods are one of the most important and exciting developments in the food industry, opening up a huge new market and transforming the relationship between food, nutrition, and health. However, manufacturers face major challenges in product development, and in substantiating and marketing health claims for this new generation of food products. An essential reference for both the food industry and health professionals, Functional Foods: Concept to Product brings together some of the leading international authorities in the field to address these challenges.
Booknews
"Functional" foods can be any kind of food that has a beneficial effect on the body beyond adequate nutrition; the idea of functionality reflects a shift away from an emphasis on a balanced diet toward achieving optimized nutrition, maximizing life expectancy and quality by using food to help the body resist disease. The idea of functional foods also opens up a huge new market, and manufacturers face challenges both in developing products and in substantiating health claims. This reference for the food industry and health professionals summarizes research on the links between food and health. It also covers regulatory issues in the European Union and US and outlines the process of product development, from identifying sources of functional compounds to scaling up for commercial sales. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
Author: Jane Goodall
With a firm but gentle touch, Dr. Goodall paints a global landscape in which corporations own the rainwater, patent the earth's seeds, and produce mysterious "Frankenfoods." Offering her hopeful, stirring vision, she introduces us to inspiring everyday heroes like a third-generation farmer who battled Monsanto and won; French activists who protest against genetically modified crops; and John Mackey, the founder of whole foods, who has vowed to sell only ethically raised animal products. Most valuable of all, Goodall offers simple strategies yo foster a sustainable society. By eating organic, shopping at farmer's markets, and taking other mindful measures, we can all do our part to reclain our food, our health, and our planet. And we must start now.
Publishers Weekly
Goodall, best known for her decades of work with chimpanzees and baboons, turns to the social significance of the food people eat and of how it reaches our tables. In a style that's both persuasive and Pollyannaish, her guide glides through a quick history of early agriculture, despairs of "death by monoculture" (single-crop farming), warns of the hazards of genetically modified foods and of the disappearance of seed diversity, and bemoans the existence of inhumane animal factories and unclean fish farms-the macro concerns of the environmentally conscious. On a more micro level, she focuses on what individuals can do for themselves. In a grab bag of well-intentioned bromides, Goodall counsels her readers to become vegetarians, celebrates restaurants and grocery stores that seek out locally grown produce, frets about the quality of school lunches and the pervasiveness of fast food-fueled obesity, honors small farmers and warns of a looming water crisis. Most chapters conclude with "what you can do" sections: demand that modified foods be labeled; turn off the tap while brushing your teeth. This book about making healthy choices breaks no new ground, but its jargon-free and anecdote-rich approach makes it a useful primer for grassroots activists, while the Goodall imprimatur could broaden its reach. Agent, Jonathan Lazear. (Nov. 1) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
What People Are Saying
Paul Hawken
"A lucid, anecdote-filled introduction to the world of food, revealing how our food production affects us and how our choices affect the environment...Consider this book the shopping list for you and your children's future."
—author of ECOLOGY OF COMMERCE
Alice Waters
"In HARVEST FOR HOPE, Jane Goodall convinces us that we should have a new relationship with food, one that is inspiring and delicious, at the same time a preservation of tradition and an act of conservation."
—author of CHEZ PANISSE FRUIT and CHEZ PANISSE VEGETABLES
Bill McKibben
"Thrice a day you get the chance to change the planet. You can change it in significant ways, if you follow just some of this book's wise advice."
—author of WANDERING HOME: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape
John Robbins
"If you want to be newly awakened to the joy of eating, to the miracle of food, and to the power each of us has by the way we live our lives, do yourself a favor. Read a copy of HARVEST FOR HOPE. I promise you: your life will change in countless ways, all of them for the better... One of those rare truly great books that can change the world."
—author of THE FOOD REVOLUTION and DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA
Deborah Madison
"If you haven't thought much about the food you eat and the choices you make (and even if you have), this is an important book to read!"
—author of VEGETARIAN COOKING FOR EVERYONE and LOCAL FLAVORS: COOKING AND EATING FROM AMERICA'S FARMERS MARKETS
Frances Moore LappŠ¹
"I love this book! Jane Goodall's generous, playful spirit imbues every fascinating page. HARVEST FOR HOPE is full of mind-expanding observations..a personal, tender wake-up call telling us that we can reclaim the wisdom of our bodies."
—author of HOPE'S EDGE and DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET
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