Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology provides succinct, authoritative definitions of over 6,100 terms in nutrition an dfood technology, as well as nutirent composition data for 340 foods and an appendix on nutrient intake and other useful data.

Features:

• Includes all new terms and techniques, and reflects the change of focus in the study of nutrition from curative to preventative techniques
• Provides nutrition composition data and tables for recommended nutrient intakes
• Contains definitions of old terms that have become obsolete, in order to assist those referring to earlier literature

Contents

1. List of Figures
2. Dictionary
3. Units of Physical Quantities and Multiples and Submultiples of Units
4. Labeling Reference Values for Foods
5. US/Canadian Recommended Daily Allowances and Acceptable Intakes, 1997 - 2001
6. EU Population Reference Intakes of Nutrients, 1993
7. UK Reference Nutrient Intakes, 1991
8. Recommended Nutrient Intakes for Vitamins, FAO 2001
9. Permitted Food Additives in the European Union
10. Nomenclature of Fatty Acids

Index

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