Functionality and Application of Colored Cereals: Nutritional, Bioactive, and Health Aspects

Functionality and Application of Colored Cereals: Nutritional,Bioactive and Health Aspects explores the potential of colored cereal grains to enhance products through plant-based food colorants,conferring attractive colors,improving appetite,minimizing synthetic colorants,and conforming to food culture. Anthocyanin and other bioactive compounds in these grains offer valuable benefits for food processing industries,as they can be extracted and utilized as functional foods and natural colorants,replacing synthetic dyes and enhancing the nutritional value,appearance,texture,flavor,and storage properties of food products.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 332 pages
Publication date: 23 November 2022
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology

Functionality and Application of Colored Cereals: Nutritional,Bioactive, and Health Aspects delves into the comprehensive exploration of the potential benefits and functionalities of these grains. Spanning from their physical chemistry to their health-promoting properties, this book showcases cereals with the potential to be transformed into enhanced products. Plant-based food colorants assume a crucial role in imparting vibrant hues to food, enhancing its appeal to consumers, boosting appetite, minimizing the use of synthetic colorants, and aligning with food cultural traditions. Over the past few decades, the presence of anthocyanin and other bioactive compounds in colored cereal grains, such as maize, rice, wheat, barley, sorghum, millet, and rye, has garnered significant attention from food processors and researchers alike. Colored cereals hold immense importance in the food processing industry as the high-value pigments found in the bran layer can be easily extracted and utilized as functional foods and natural colorants. The extracted pigments, including anthocyanin, have the potential to replace synthetic dyes commonly used in foods, drugs, and cosmetics. Furthermore, natural additives contribute to improving the nutritional value, appearance, texture, flavor, and storage properties of food products.

Weight: 700g
Dimension: 190 x 234 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780323997331