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

Functionality and Application of Colored Cereals: Nutritional, Bioactive and Health Aspects is the first book to focus on exploiting the full and functional possibilities of those grains. From their physical chemistry to their health benefits, this book highlights those cereals with the greatest potential for enhanced products. Plant-based food colorants play an important role in conferring colors to food to increase its attractiveness toward consumers, improve appetite, minimize synthetic colorants, and even conform to the food culture. Over the last decades, the presence of anthocyanin and other bioactive compounds in colored (black, purple, blue, pink, red, and brown) cereal grains (maize, rice, wheat, barley, sorghum, millet, and rye) have attracted the attention of various food processors and researchers. Colored cereals are imperative for food processing industries as high-value pigments present in the bran layer can easily be extracted and utilized as functional foods and natural colorants. The extracted pigments such as anthocyanin can replace synthetic dyes currently used in food, drug, and cosmetics. Additionally, natural additives improve the nutritional value, appearance, texture, flavor, and storage properties of food products. Colored cereals can promote health and fight diseases and have been found to have antioxidant, antihypertensive, antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic effects. The invention of newer technologies to enrich cereals color to enhance their use, health potential, and consumer acceptability has been the focus area that needs the utmost attention from cereal technologists. This book addresses that need in a comprehensive reference ideal for researchers, academics and professionals in product development. Reviews colored cereal grains morphology, composition and the diversity of the different uses of cereal grains Functionality and therapeutic significance of functional components of colored cereal grains Contains global coverage of the latest research on the bioactive potential, food applications, and health benefits of colored cereals INDICE: 1. Colored cereal (blue, black, purple, and red): Botanical Aspects 2. Colored Cereals: Nutritional Quality 3. Colored Cereals: Beyond Nutritional values 4. Colored Creals: Food applications 5. Colored Creals: Genetics and chemistry of pigments 6. Colored Creals: Extraction and purification of bioactive compounds (pigments) 7. Anthocyanin and its health benefits 8. Phenolic compounds and their health benefits 9. Genetic manipulation of colored cereals for improved nutritional quality 10. Biofortification of colored cereals with essential micronutrients 11. Processing colored cereals to optimize product quality 12. Potential use of colored cereals in processed foods and food systems 13. Future research in the colored Grains

• ISBN: 978-0-323-99733-1
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés