Immobilization Technologies in Probiotic Food Production

Immobilization Technologies in Probiotic Food Production

Various supports and immobilization/encapsulation techniques have been proposed and tested for application in functional food production. In the present review, the use of probiotic microorganisms for the production of novel foods is discussed, while the benefits and criteria of using probiotic cultures are analyzed. Subsequently, immobilization/encapsulation applications in the food industry a...

Evaluating New Food Technologies in Pork Production

Biocheese: A Food Probiotic Carrier

This review describes some aspects related to the technological barriers encountered in the development and stability of probiotic cheeses. Aspects concerning the viability of probiotic cultures in this matrix are discussed and the potential of cheese as a biofunctional food carrier is analyzed, outlying some points related to health and safety. In general, the manufacture of probiotic cheese s...

Knowledge and technologies for sustainable intensification of food production.

Knowledge and technologies will always continue to be developed, as they have always, to bring new efficiencies to plant breeding and crop production, which suffer from many constraints and inefficiencies. These constraints need to be overcome throughout the world to help increase the rate of improvements in food production and intensify production on less land. The recent discoveries and techn...

The Food Crisis and New Technologies

The present crisis in global economy, the issue of cli mate change and the fast-growing world population, <span style="font-variant: normal; font-s...