Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies The Science Behind Health

This volume covers many new trends and developments in food science, including preparation, characterization, morphology, properties, and recyclability. The volume considers food quality, shelf life, and manufacturing in conjunction with human nutrition, diet, and health as well as the ever-growing demand for the supply and production of healthier foods.

Distinguished scientists specializing in various disciplines discuss basic studies, applications, recent advances, difficulties, and breakthroughs in the field. The volume includes informative discussions and new research on food formulations, manufacturing techniques, biodegradably flexible packaging, packaged foods, beverages, fruits and vegetable processing, fisheries, milk and milk products, frozen food and thermo processing, grain processing, meat and poultry processing, rheological characteristics of foods, heat exchangers in the food industry, food and health (including natural cures and food supplements), spice and spice processing, and more.

Lion’s Mane: The Medicinal Mushroom That Offers New Hope for Peripheral Neuropathy

A. Jeyakumari, U. Parvathy, A. A. Zynudheen, Narasimha Murthy, Visnuvinayagam, and C. N. Ravishankar

AppaRao Gudimalla, Raghevndra Mishra, R. Rajakumari, Jiya Jose, G. Giridhar, Nandakumar Kalarikal, and Sabu Thomas

Underutilized Novel Xeric Crop: Kair (Capparis decidua)

Rajakumari Rajendran is a Research Fellow working at the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. She has industrial experience in dietary supplements and medicinal formulations and is currently engaged in developing dietary supplements. She has been awarded the prestigious INSPIRE Fellowship (DST) and has two research publications to her credit.

Anne George, MD, is Associate Professor at Government Medical College, Kottayam, Kerala, India. She did her MBBS Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) at Trivandrum Medical College, University of Kerala, India. She acquired a DGO (Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology) from the University of Vienna, Austria; Diploma Acupuncture from the University of Vienna; and an MD from Kottayam Medical College, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. She has organized several international conferences, is a fellow of the American Medical Society, and is a member of many international organizations.

Nandakumar Kalarikkal, PhD, is Associate Professor and Head of the Advanced Materials Laboratory, School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. He is also the Joint Director of the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the same university. He is a fellow of many professional bodies. He has authored many professional journal articles and has co-edited several books.

Sabu Thomas, PhD, is the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University and Founding Director of the International and Inter University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is also a full professor of polymer science and engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences of the same university. He is a fellow of many professional bodies. Professor Thomas has (co-)authored many papers in international peer-reviewed journals in the area of polymer science and nanotechnology; his H index is 81.