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Carbohydrate sweeteners in foods and nutrition / NJF Symposium held 29.11.78-1.12.78, Helsinki-Espoo, Finland ; edited by Pekka Koivistoinen and Lea Hyvönen.

Title
Carbohydrate sweeteners in foods and nutrition / NJF Symposium held 29.11.78-1.12.78, Helsinki-Espoo, Finland ; edited by Pekka Koivistoinen and Lea Hyvönen.
Author
Symposium on Carbohydrate Sweeteners (1978 : Helsinki, Finland, and Espoo, Finland)
Publication
London ; New York : Academic Press, c1980.

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Additional Authors
  • Koivistoinen, Pekka.
  • Hyvönen, Lea
  • NJF (Association)
Description
xiv, 289 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Abstract: Advances in food technology have brought about the increased use of carbohydrate sweeteners by food manufacturers and processors. The sweetness properties,nutritional aspects and industrial applications ofsweeteners are examined in a collection of symposium papers. Both naturally sweet carbohydrates and added sucrosesubstitutes present in food and drink are considered. Therole of carbohydrate sweeteners in metabolism and disease, thermal and fermentation processes, the food industry, nutrition policy, and dental caries is describd. The theory and psychophysiology of sweetness, and consumer behavior and sensory responses to sweetness are discussed. Other topics include comparative evaluation of sweeteners, their modification by the food environment, and synergism between sweeteners. Such sweeteners as starch, lycasin and lactose hydrolysates, lactitol, fructose and xylitol areinvestigated in detail.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • Proceedings of the Symposium on Carbohydrate Sweeteners sponsored by the Scandinavian Agricultural Research Workers' Association.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0124170501
LCCN
^^^79041549^
OCLC
  • 6015754
  • SCSB-14245788
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library