Drying of Foods, Vegetables and Fruits (Volume 3)

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National University of Singapore, Singapore, Copyright © 2011. All rights reserved. — 170 p. — ISBN: 978-981-08-9426-9This book is divided in three volumes; the first volume is dedicated to fundamentals of drying FVF, second volume has detailed discussion on drying of various types of food, while the third volume covers special topics of wide interest. The first volume (published in 2010) starts with basic discussion of relevant principles, terminologies and introduction to advances in drying of food products followed by a chapter on hygrothermal data for various FVFs. This is followed by a comprehensive discussion on selection and classification of dryers for food products. This is followed by chapters on osmotic pretreatments, quality and safety in food drying, energy optimization and use of renewable sources of energy for drying of foods. The second volume (published in 2011) of this book series covered drying of most of the food variety such as drying of rice, medical plants, roots, marine products, exotic tropical fruits, probiotics and recently popularized functional food and snack food. This volume (third of the series) covers special topics such as microwave freeze drying, role of extrusion of food materials, vacuum frying, baking of bread, fluidized bed drying of foods, use of renewable energy and finally a chapter on use of mathematical modeling in food drying considering a case of impinging jet drying. We are happy to bring out the third volume of this effort, however, based on the response of drying experts, a fourth volume is also proposed. Sachin Vinayak Jangam, NUS, Singapore Chung Lim Law, Nottingham University, Malaysia Campus Arun Sadashiv Mujumdar, NUS, Singapore EditorsContents Microwave Vacuum Freeze drying of fruit and vegetables Bread Baking Food Extrusion: Emerging Technology for Food Processing in 21st Century Fluidized Bed Drying Vacuum Frying of Fruit and Vegetables Use of renewable source of energy for drying of FVF Conjugate Model for Drying of Thin Slabs Using Impinging