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Applied Food Protein Chemistry by Zeynep Ustunol

By Zeynep Ustunol

Food proteins are of serious curiosity, not just as a result of their dietary significance and their performance in meals, but in addition for his or her unsafe results. even supposing proteins from milk, meats (including fish and poultry), eggs, cereals, legumes, and oilseeds were the normal resources of protein within the human vitamin, possibly any proteins from a organic resource may perhaps function a meals protein. the first function of protein within the vitamin is to supply the development fabrics for the synthesis of muscle and different tissues, they usually play a serious function in lots of organic methods. also they are accountable for nutrition texture, colour, and taste. this day, foodstuff proteins are extracted, converted, and included into processed meals to impart particular practical houses. they could even have antagonistic results within the vitamin: proteins, equivalent to walnuts, pecans, almonds, and cashews, soybean, wheat, milk, egg, crustacean, and fish proteins should be robust allergens for a few people.

Applied nutrition Protein Chemistry is an utilized reference which reports the houses of nutrients proteins and offers in-depth info on vital plant and animal proteins fed on worldwide. The ebook is grouped into 3 sections: (1) evaluation of foodstuff proteins, (2) plant proteins, and (3) animal proteins. each one bankruptcy discusses global construction, distribution, usage, physicochemical homes, and the sensible homes of every protein, in addition to its nutrients functions. The authors for every of the chapters are conscientiously chosen specialists within the box. This publication may be a helpful reference software if you paintings on foodstuff proteins. it is going to even be an incredible textual content on utilized foodstuff protein chemistry for upper-level scholars and graduate scholars of foodstuff technology courses

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Edited by Zeynep Ustunol. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2015 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 24 CH 4 PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL, AND PROCESSING-INDUCED CHANGES IN PROTEINS 2012). Properties and functionality of food proteins can be altered through chemical and enzymatic modifications. Processing of foods can also result in changes in properties of food proteins and their functionality. Among processing methods, heating is the most common and traditional method of processing foods. However, more recently there has been great interest in nonthermal processes such as high pressure and pulsed electric field (PEF) processing.

Depending on the extent, protein alkylation improves the functional properties of proteins such as emulsifying properties, water binding capacity. It can also make a protein resistant to proteolysis. Alkylation most often will prevent or delay Maillard reactions. Similar to acylation reactions, alkylation reactions are also irreversible. 3 Glycosylation Chemical glycosylation of a food protein can be accomplished by reductive alkylation if a reducing sugar is selected as the reactant. The reaction occurs under alkaline conditions.

When temperatures are increased hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interaction that are exothermic in nature, are weakened. As these bonds are weakened and broken, the protein becomes more flexible providing more of the side groups to be exposed to the surrounding solvent. If the heating ceases at this point the protein may be able to fold back and revert back to its native structure. However, hydrogen bonds that stabilize the secondary structure may be disrupted if the heating continues. As these bonds are disrupted the water surrounding the protein will form new hydrogen bonds with the newly exposed groups.

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