Anthocyanins Postharvest Processing, Functionality and Industrial Applications

Anthocyanins Postharvest Processing, Functionality and Industrial Applications covers the postharvest processing methods of food samples for getting anthocyanins and further explores their functionality. The complexity of different postharvest techniques (drying, extraction, storage, formulations), their effect over anthocyanins stability, current challenges and recent advances are covered. Sections provide a general overview on various natural sources for obtaining anthocyanins, their chemistry and classification, biosynthesis and regulation, functionality and various post-harvest food processing techniques and stability issues of anthocyanins. This is a great resource for researchers working in food science, food bioprocessing, natural product activity and allied fields.

Other sections present the complexity of post-harvested techniques for obtaining anthocyanins from food samples and the functionality of anthocyanins related to biological activities and recent advances in mitigating stability issues. Finally, the industrial applications of anthocyanins in nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical and in animal feed industry are presented.

• Thoroughly explores food bioprocess techniques for anthocyanins
• Covers the importance of anthocyanins on natural product pharmacology, stability issues of anthocyanin affecting its functionality, and how advances in nanotechnologies and allied fields will overcome these limitations
• Brings industrial relevance for anthocyanin and its applications to different foods, beverages, nutraceuticals, medicines, cosmetics and animal feed sectors