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Impact of Processing on Food Safety

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Attention for Chapter 7: The impact of food processing on the nutritional quality of vitamins and minerals.
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Chapter title
The impact of food processing on the nutritional quality of vitamins and minerals.
Chapter number 7
Book title
Impact of Processing on Food Safety
Published in
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, January 1999
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-4853-9_7
Pubmed ID
Book ISBNs
978-1-4613-7201-1, 978-1-4615-4853-9
Authors

Reddy, M B, Love, M, Manju B. Reddy, Mark Love, Reddy, Manju B., Love, Mark

Abstract

Processing (including preparation) makes food healthier, safer, tastier and more shelf-stable. While the benefits are numerous, processing can also be detrimental, affecting the nutritional quality of foods. Blanching, for example, results in leaching losses of vitamins and minerals. Also, milling and extrusion can cause the physical removal of minerals during processing. The nutritional quality of minerals in food depends on their quantity as well as their bioavailability. The bioavailability of key minerals such as iron, zinc and calcium is known to be significantly affected by the fiber, phytic acid, and tannin content of foods. Concentrations of these constituents are altered by various processing methods including milling, fermentation, germination (sprouting), extrusion, and thermal processing. Vitamins, especially ascorbic acid, thiamin and folic acid, are highly sensitive to the same processing methods. The time and temperature of processing, product composition and storage are all factors that substantially impact the vitamin status of our foods.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Kenya 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 195 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 50 25%
Student > Master 33 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 13%
Researcher 14 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 3%
Other 17 9%
Unknown 54 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 51 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 20 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 6%
Chemistry 8 4%
Other 29 15%
Unknown 66 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 May 2020.
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#1,402,387
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Outputs from Advances in experimental medicine and biology
#183
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#1,357
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Outputs of similar age from Advances in experimental medicine and biology
#6
of 47 outputs
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