Polar Lipids: Biology, Chemistry, and Technology

Polar Lipids is a valuable reference resource providing thorough and comprehensive coverage of different types of polar lipids known to lipid science and industry today. This book covers important applications and utilization of polar lipids, either in the area of food and nutrition, or health and disease. Each chapter covers chemistry and chemical synthesis, biosynthesis and biological effects, functional and nutritional properties, applications, processing technologies, and future trends of a variety of polar lipids-including glycolipids, ether lipids, phenol lipids, serine phospholipids, omega-3 phospholipids, rice lecithin, palm lecithin, sunflower lecithin, sugar- and protein-based lipids, lysophospholipids, and more. CONTENTS • Soybean Lecithin: Food, Industrial Uses, and Other Applications • Rice Bran Lecithin: Compositional, Nutritional, and Functional Characteristics • Sunflower Lecithin • Palm Phospholipids • Milk and Dairy Polar Lipids: Occurrence, Purification, and Nutritional and Technological Properties • Phosphatidylserine: Biology, Technologies, and Applications • Phenolipids as New Antioxidants: Production, Activity, and Potential Applications • Sugar Fatty Acid Esters • Production and Utilization of Natural Phospholipids • Lysophospholipids: Advances in Synthesis and Biological Significance • Autooxidation of Plasma Lipids, Generation of Bioactive Products and Their Biological Relevance • NMR Resonance of Polar Lipids • Polar Lipids Profiling by Supercritical Fluid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Method • Omega 3-Phospholipids