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Summary
Summary
Many food ingredients are supplied in powdered form, as reducing water content increases shelf life and aids ease of storage, handling and transport. Powder technology is therefore of great importance to the food industry. The Handbook of food powders explores a variety of processes that are involved in the production of food powders, the further processing of these powders and their functional properties.
Part one introduces processing and handling technologies for food powders and includes chapters on spray, freeze and drum drying, powder mixing in the production of food powders and safety issues around food powder production processes. Part two focusses on powder properties including surface composition, rehydration and techniques to analyse the particle size of food powders. Finally, part three highlights speciality food powders and includes chapters on dairy powders, fruit and vegetable powders and coating foods with powders.
The Handbook of food powders is a standard reference for professionals in the food powder production and handling industries, development and quality control professionals in the food industry using powders in foods, and researchers, scientists and academics interested in the field.
Author Notes
Prof. Bhandari has been associated with the University of Queensland for the last 21 years. His research and teaching areas include food materials science, processing, physical and engineering properties of foods. Prof Bhandari has published two co-edited books and more than 200 book chapters and research papers. His publications have been cited nearly 6000 times (2014) and is recognised as one of the leading researchers in glass transition and encapsulation technologies in food science discipline. He has recently patented two significant technologies, a continuous microgel particle formation device for encapsulation of food and pharmaceauticals and a technology to produce ethylene powder by applying materials science approach.
Nidhi Bansal has been working at the University of Queensland for the last 6 years in the field of Dairy Science and Technology. Currently, she is advising 13 PhD students (1 5 as principal advisor). 9 of her students have completed their PhDs (2 as principal advisor) in 2013-15. In addition to her research publications in the field, Dr Bansal has also co-edited a book recently (Bhandari B, Bansal N, Zhang M, Schuck P; Handbook of Food Powders: Processes and Properties; Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2013) and contributed a book chapter on "Functional Milk Proteins: Production and Utilization. Whey-Based Ingredients" in Advanced Dairy Chemistry-1B, Proteins: Applied Aspects (4th edition, vol. 1B, New York: Springer).
Professor Min Zhang works at the School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, China.
Dr Pierre Schuck is a researcher at INRA, France.
