Food Lipids: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology (Food Science and Technology)

Highlights the role of dietary fats in food, human health and disease. The book offers presentations of lipids in food, providing a background in lipid nomenclature and classification as well as recent developments in lipid chemistry. It examines phospholipids, waxes and sterols, emulsions, frying fats and trans fatty acids. College and university bookshops may order five or more copies at a special student price, available on request.