The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 405 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.

The world's most comprehensive, well documented and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 615 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.

Frontiers in Natural Product Chemistry is a book series devoted to publishing monographs that highlight important advances in natural product chemistry. The series covers all aspects of research in the chemistry and biochemistry of naturally occurring compounds including coverage of work on natural substances of land and sea and of plants, microbes and animals. Reviews of structure elucidation, biological activity, organic and experimental synthesis of natural products as well as developments of new methods are included. The third volume of the series brings seven reviews covering natural products from marine plant sources, natural oligosaccharides, topical sesquiterpenes for pain treatment, biological activity of piperidinols and much more.

This book provides an overview of the key benefits of soy protein products in an easily understood format. Soy protein, flour, concentrates, and isolates have been shown to be versatile food ingredients. The functional properties and nutritional benefits of soy protein products are fully described.

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 76 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital format on Google Books.

A big, inside look at the shocking lack of regulation within the pet food industry, and how readers can dramatically improve the quality of their dogs’ lives through diet. What's really going into commercial dog food? The answer is horrifying. Big Kibble is big business: $75 billion globally. A handful of multi-national corporations dominate the industry and together own as many as 80% of all brands. This comes as a surprise to most people, but what’s even more shocking is how lax the regulations and guidelines are around these products. The guidelines—or lack thereof—for pet food allow producers to include ever-cheaper ingredients, and create ever-larger earnings. For example, “legal” ingredients in kibble include poultry feces, saw dust, expired food, and diseased meat, among other horrors. Many vets still don’t know that kibble is not the best food for dogs because Big Kibble funds the nutrition research. So far, these corporations have been able to cut corners and still market and promote feed-grade food as if it were healthful and beneficial—until now. Just as you are what you eat, so is your dog. Once you stop feeding your dog the junk that’s in kibble or cans, you have taken the first steps to improving your dog’s health, behavior and happiness. You know the unsavory side of Big Tobacco and Big Pharma. Now Shawn Buckley, Dr. Oscar Chavez, and Wendy Paris explain all you need to know about unsavory Big Kibble—and offer a brighter path forward for you and your pet.

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Soy Protein and Human Nutrition

This body of research focuses on three major areas related to soy protein ingredients. The first area is the use of genetically modified high-sucrose/low-stachyose soybeans (HS/LS) in a new simplified procedure to prepare soy protein concentrate; secondly, fractionating soy protein into ingredients enriched in either glycinin or [Beta]-conglycinin; and lastly, processing effects on soy protein isolate functionality. Soy protein fractionation was significantly improved by increasing protein yields and reducing processing costs. In the three-step or Wu fractionation procedure, significant advances were made by identifying the optimum SO2 concentration to be 5 mM, the optimum NaCl concentration to be 250 mM, and the optimum dilution factor to be 1-fold. Furthermore, this procedure was modified by using mM amounts of CaCl2 at pH 6.4 improving both yield and purity of the [Beta]-conglycinin-rich fraction. A new two-step fractionation procedure was developed based on the differential calcium reactivity of glycinin and [Beta]-conglycinin. The use of 5 mM SO2 in combination with 5 mM CaCl2 in this fractionation procedure yielded improved purities in the glycinin-rich (85.2%) and [Beta]-conglycinin-rich (80.9%) fractions. This procedure yielded fractions with improved solids, protein, and isofiavone yields. In addition, the ingredients produced by this method had unique and improved functional properties. Phytic acid was proposed as playing an important role in fractionating soybean storage proteins because of its ability to complex with calcium ions and soy protein. HS/LS soybeans were used to produce a new soy protein concentrate that was low in fiber, high in isoflavones and soluble sugars, and had unique functional properties, which were, in most cases, similar to or better than those found in traditional soy protein isolates. HS/LS soybeans were identified as good starting material for fractionating soy protein. In the Wu fractionation procedure, HS/LS soybeans yielded high amounts of the individual storage proteins with 100% electrophoretical purity. The functionality of soy protein isolate was affected by extraction temperatures and method of preservation. Spray-dried soy protein isolates (SPI) were more soluble, hydrophobic, and formed more stable emulsions than did freeze-dried SPIs. The drying method, however, did not affect denaturation enthalpy of SPI.