(Hui: Food Science and Technology) 1st Edition
by Resat Apak (Editor), Esra Capanoglu (Editor), Fereidoon Shahidi (Editor)
A comprehensive reference for
assessing the antioxidant potential of foods and essential techniques
for developing healthy food products
Measurement of Antioxidant Activity and Capacity
offers a much-needed resource for assessing the antioxidant potential
of food and includes proven approaches for creating healthy food
products. With contributions from world-class experts in the field, the
text presents the general mechanisms underlying the various assessments,
the types of molecules detected, and the key advantages and
disadvantages of each method. Both thermodynamic (i.e. efficiency of
scavenging reactive species) and kinetic (i.e. rates of hydrogen atom or
electron transfer reactions) aspects of available methods are discussed
in detail.
A thorough description of all available methods
provides a basis and rationale for developing standardized antioxidant
capacity/activity methods for food and nutraceutical sciences and
industries. This text also contains data on new antioxidant measurement
techniques including nanotechnological methods in spectroscopy and
electrochemistry, as well as on innovative assays combining several
principles. Therefore, the comparison of conventional methods versus
novel approaches is made possible. This important resource:
- Offers suggestions for assessing the antioxidant potential of foods and their components
- Includes strategies for the development of healthy functional food products
- Contains information for identifying antioxidant activity in the body
- Presents
the pros and cons of the available antioxidant determination methods,
and helps in the selection of the most appropriate method
Written
for researchers and professionals in the nutraceutical and functional
food industries,academia and government laboratories, this text includes
the most current knowledge in order to form a common language between
research groups and to contribute to the solution of critical problems
existing for all researchers working in this field.
