This up-to-date survey covers selected but vital aspects of fish processing with emphasis on quality, technology and nutraceutical applications.

The aspects of seafood quality addressed range from the impact of slaughter procedures, through protein functionality, texture, flavor, histamine toxicity to the key aspects of practical evaluation of quality and measurement of fish content. Technological aspects concentrate on automation in fish processing, waste water treatment and possible uses for value added products from fish waste.

With respect to novel applications of the marine resource, the important areas of marine nutraceuticals / functional foods are discussed in detail. This book is highly recommended for scientists and technologists in the seafood industries. It is also of proven value to fish processing professionals, quality managers, processors, nutritional and sensory scientists.

Seafoods: Technology, Quality and Nutraceutical Applications is an ideal reference for food scientists/technologists, biochemists and fish processing specialists in industry, academia and government laboratories, nutritional scientists, marketing specialists in fish industries.

Contents

1. Seafoods: Quality, Technology and Nutraceutical Applications –An Overview
2. The Killing of Quality: The Impact of Slaughter Procedures on Fish Flesh
3. Practical Evaluation of Fish Quality
4. Eating Quality of Deep-Water Fish Species and their Products
5. Quality Control by Instrumental Texture Measurements
6. Measurement of the Fish Content in Fish Products
7. Functional Properties of Fish Proteins
8. Binding and Texture Modification Using Transglutaminase
9. Histamine Toxicity and Scombroid Fish Poisoning: a Review
10. Analysis of Seafood Aroma/Odour by Electronic Nose Technology and Direct Analysis
11. Improved Utilisation of Fish and Shellfish Waste
12. The Icelandic Way Towards Automation in Fish Processing
13. Reducing Water and Trade Effluent Costs in Fish Processing
14. Omega-3 Fatty Acid Concentrates: A Review of Production Technologies
15. Food and Health Applications of Marine Nutraceuticals: A Review
16. Marine Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods in Japan

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