Food, Beverage & Tobacco Industries - General & Miscellaneous, Nutrition - Medicine, Agricultural & Food Processing Machinery, Medical Reference
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Overview
The study of food as included in the combined subjects of nutrition and food science and technology involves a wide variety of basic sciences ranging from chemistry and biochemistry to microbiology and engineering. Consequently many technical terms and abbreviations are involved. At the same time the rapidly growing interest in the subject is shared by specialists from many fields such as sociology, medicine, agriculture and commerce. The purpose of this dictionary is to assist the specialist from one field to understand the technical terms used by the variety of specialists in the food fields. Successive editions have become larger with the broadening scope of the subject matter, changes in policy such as the inclusion of proprietary names, the updating of information, and the introduction by official bodies of defined terminology. In the present edition the energy content of foods is expressed in both joules and calories, and vitamins are expressed, where appropriate, in both micrograms and international units.
Editorials
Booknews
Defines technical terms including brief descriptions of equipment and techniques, abbreviations, proprietary names, and the composition of common foods. Covers disciplines ranging from agriculture and engineering to microbiology, biochemistry, and aspects of medicine. The sixth edition (fifth in 1982) contains some 4,000 entries, including terms that have become obsolete, 300 revisions, and 300 new entries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
December 1, 1990
Publisher
CRC Press Inc
Pages
336
Format
Hardcover, 1990
ISBN
9780408037532