Value-Added Ingredients and Enrichments of Beverages

Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu is a lecturer in the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, at the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. He is an experienced researcher and published editor in the field of nano and biostructures. He is the editor-in-chief of two international open access journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience. Dr. Grumezescu has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, authored nine books, and has served as an editor for more than 50 scholarly books. Alina-Maria Holban is a lecturer in Microbiology and Immunology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; and associate researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Her primary area of research is the development of bionanomaterials with antimicrobial applications. Dr. Holban has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 42 conference/symposia proceedings, and has edited more than 21 edited books.

"This book, which belongs to Volume 14: The Science of Beverages series, discusses about the food and beverage enrichments. It discusses the novel technologies of extraction and production of enrichments, their variety, as well as their impact on product quality and consumers effects. This book is intended for researchers in the field of food and beverages, and also biotechnologists, industrial representatives interested in innovation, academic staff and students in food science, engineering, biology, and chemistry-related fields, pharmacology and medicine, and is an updated resource for any reader interested to find the basics and recent innovations in the most investigated fields in beverage engineering. It contains 15 chapters under the following headings: Additionally added ingredients and enrichment of beverages: an overview (pp. 1-35); Health-promoting ingredients in beverages (pp. 37-61); Enrichment of beverages with health beneficial ingredients (pp.63-99); Functional and nutraceutical ingredients from marine resources (pp. 101-171); Potential health-promoting effects of probiotics in dairy beverages (pp. 173-204); Novel strategies to supplement probiotics to nondairy beverages (pp. 205-232); Probiotics in nondairy matrixes: a potential combination for the enrichment and elaboration of dual functionality beverages (pp. 233- 263); Sugar-sweetened beverages consumption and long-term side effects on nutrition and health outcomes in pediatric age group (pp. 265-283); Phenolic compounds as functional ingredients in beverages (pp. 285-323); Potential of antioxidants for functional beverages to improve health through good business (pp. 325-352); Omega-3 beverages (pp. 353-382); Anthocyanins as natural pigments in beverages (pp. 383-428); High-pressure carbon dioxide treatment of fresh fruit juices (pp. 429-463); Quality performance assessment of gas injection during juice processing and conventional preservation technologies (pp. 465-485); and Self-assembled systems based on surfactants and polymers as stabilizers for citral in beverages (pp. 487-521). A 14pp. Index is also present." --IFIS Publishing

• 1. An overview of Value-Added Ingredients and Enrichment of Beverages2. Nutritional and Biologically Active Compounds in Beverages: Sources and Recent Analytical Approaches for Determination3. Health Promoting Ingredients in beverages4. Phenolic Compounds as Functional Ingredients in Beverages5. Utilization of whey in the formulation of beverages with fruits and vegetables6. Novel strategies to supplement probiotics to non-dairy beverages7. Application of essential oils as additional ingredient in beverages8. Aloe vera – a valuable source of functional beverages9. Potential of antioxidants for functional beverages: the chlorogenic acid case to improve health through good business 10. Lutein and Oxygenated Carotenoids in Beverages11. Omega 3 Beverages 12. Anthocyanins as natural pigments in beverages13. Self-assembly designs as prospective stabilizers of the “notorious” Citral in Beverages14. Use of sweeteners in the beverage industry: Nutritional and health implications15. Gastrointestinal signal transduction mechanisms of low calorie sweeteners – Implication for nutrient absorption, transport and the neurohumoral systems of memory and cognition