Food carbohydrate chemistry

Main Author: Wrolstad, Ronald E., 1939-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:IFT Press series ; 48
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10518661
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Structure and nomenclature of sugars and sugar derivatives.2. Sugar Composition.3. Reactions of sugars.4. Functional properties of sugars.5. Sugar analytical methods.6. Non-enzymic browning reactions.7. Starch.8. Cell-wall polysaccharides.9. Nutritional roles of carbohydrates Appendix - exercises and demonstrations.
  • Recognition of hemiacetals, hemiketals, acetals and ketals. - - Making molecular models of sugars with molecular model kits. - - Calculation and specification of multiple chirality of sugar pyranoid ring structures.
  • Plane-polarized light & optical activity.
  • Sugar polarimetry & sucrose inversion.- -The Fehlings test for reducing and non-reducing sugars. - - Student-designed non-enzymic browning experiments. - - Microscopic examination of starch. - - The qualitative iodine test for starch.