Rice Quality: A Guide to Rice Properties and Analysis (Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition, Band 219) - Hardcover

Bhattacharya, Kshirod R

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845694856 ISBN 13: 9781845694852

Verlag: Woodhead Publishing, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Rice is a unique and highly significant crop, thought to help feed nearly half the planet on a daily basis. An understanding of its properties and their significance is essential for the provision of high quality products. This is all the more true today as international trade in rice trade has been increasing rapidly in recent years. This important book reviews variability in rice characteristics and their effects on rice quality.After an introduction on rice quality that also explores paradoxes associated with the crop, the book goes on to examine rice physical properties and milling quality. This leads to a discussion of the effects that the degree of milling has on rice quality. The ageing of rice and its cooking and eating quality are investigated in the following chapters before an analysis of the effect of parboiling on rice quality. Later chapters consider the product-making and nutritional quality of rice and investigate speciality rices and rice breeding for desirable quality. The book concludes with an extensive chapter on rice quality analysis and an appendix containing selected rice quality test procedures.With its distinguished author Rice quality: a guide to rice properties and analysis proves an invaluable resource for professionals in the rice industry and researchers and post-graduate students interested in rice.

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Dr Kshirod R. Bhattacharya worked in the Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India. Currently he is Advisor to Tilda Riceland Pvt. Ltd, India, in particular advising the company’s Rice Research and Development Centre. He is renowned for his research and work to understand the rice grain and improve its quality.

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• Verlag: Woodhead Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845694856
• ISBN 13: 9781845694852
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 608
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