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Fundamentals of Food Process Engineering

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It provides many good practical examples, which will help students to understand and apply the basic concepts. – Trends in Food Science and Technology; …easy to read and provides a good basic introduction to a broad rang (more…)

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Sensory Evaluation of Food: Principles and Practices

This volume covers all the basic techniques of sensory testing, from simple discrimination tests to home use placements for consumers. It provides fundamental theories, psychological and statistical, that form the basis and rationale (more…)

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Introduction to Food Engineering, Fourth Edition

The fourth edition of this leading textbook presents the engineering concepts and unit operations used in food processing in a classroom-proven and unique blend of principles with applications. Describing the application of a particu (more…)

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The Guardian Science Blog on Baking

This article from the Science Blog of the UK Guardian is really worth reading – its a great blend of the physical aspects of making a loaf of bread and some science down to the level of equations and protein structure.

 

from: Guadian.co.uk (click image for full story online)

 

This isn’t [...]

Guide to Indigenous Fruit Processing – Free Technical Manual

This is one more of those amazing sources of information that the INTERNET provides for free. In the past if you were lucky enough to know about it you could probably request a copy. Now you GOOGLE and FTP a PDF for free!

 

from: CPWild (click image for full story online)

 

Interestingly [...]

Science in Africa – Online Information Resource

Here is a really good online resource – it covers a wide range of scientific subjects from an African angle and also periodically presents really practical series with a do-it-yourself flavour.

 

from: Science in Africa

 

For example there was a series on essential oils including processing and how to produce alcohol from [...]

The Science / Food balance of the French

I found this well thumbed book in a house where I lived in France.

photo by Dave Harcourt (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License)

 

Knowing and having lived the French “obsession” with food for three months I feel it might be interesting to look at its contents a bit deeper. You can [...]

What is the Real Position on Biofuels

Here is the first of my notes on Biofuels – I look forward to inputs and comments!

I am sure I can not answer that question – I think its a bit like the “will Biotechnology really save the poor of the world?” question which has two “sides”, a public who can’t decide and not [...]