This text integrates theoretical and practical aspects of state-of-the-art methods of food analysis. The authors emphasize basic principles rather than details of each method, enabling the reader to evaluate its benefits and limitations for specific problems. Food analysis equipment is also explained in the context of analytical protocols. Revised and updated, the third edition of this volume features new or expanded discussions of: sampling and sample preparation, as well as assessing and reporting results; extraction with supercritical fluid techniques and line process monitoring; capillary zone electrophoresis fluid techniques and thermal analysis. Numerous diagrams and flow-charts have been added providing a vital visual dimension to this overview of food analysis. This book is a text for undergraduate and graduate students in food science and technology and a reference and sourcebook on analytical methods and instruments for the professional researcher in the field of food analysis. The third edition has been updated: every chapter has been revised.
This book should be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of food analysis; research and development personnel; and food scientists.