This singular text aims to strengthen the scientific understanding of food product design and engineering, and to stimulate and accelerate the development of innovative, complex and highly structured products and suitable production processes. By gathering an interdisciplinary team of scientists from the research areas of food engineering, biophysics, applied soft matter, food technology and applied human nutrition, this book contributes to an integrated process and product design approach for creating innovative, multi-phase structured foods delivering functionality.

Delivering functionality in foods: from structure design to product engineering serves as an important reference for food engineers, food technologists and nutritionists, covering all aspects of the design of food structures and their application in the development of functional food products. From the delivery of health-related functionalities to process and product engineering for delivery of multiple food properties, this work provides a comprehensive overview of the knowledge, processes and technologies required for the design of functional foods.

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António A. Vicente is a Professor in the Centre of Biological Engineering at University of Minho in Braga, Portugal

Cristina L. M. Silva is a Professor in the Faculty of Biotecnology at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, Portugal Chelo Gonzalez is a Professor at the Institute of Food Engineering for the Development at Universidad Politecnica de Valencia in Valencia, Spain

Inhalt

1. Engineering of structures for tailored delivery of health-related functionalities

   Chapter 1: Biophysics/Biochemistry-driven strategies for structure design in model multiphase foods

   Chapter 2: Engineering self-assembly nano- and microstructures in food systems

   Chapter 3: Designing complex (bio)polymer and colloidal systems

   Chapter 4: Designing of novel and/or tunable structures for engineered nano- and microstructures for stability and controlled release of bioactives

   Chapter 5: Development of advanced analytical and theoretical tools to elucidate the effects of structure on the health and nutritional attributes of the final food product

2. Process and product engineering for food properties delivery
   Chapter 6: Understanding and controlling the behavior of functional ingredients/ingredient design with targeted health functionality

   Chapter 7: Biophysical and gastro-intestinal engineering aspects of nutrient absorption and physiological function Chapter 8: Process innovations in encapsulation technology, drying, structuring technologies, non-thermal processing following a criterion for structure/process design

   Chapter 9: Consumer perception as a criterion for process design

   Sharing knowledge and technologies between academia and industry for healthy foods design
   Chapter 10: Enterprise-based innovation system in food structure design

   Chapter 11: Structure design for gastronomy applications

   Chapter 12: Case studies on structure/process development with relevance to different food manufacturing processes