Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food Digestion
For the first time, this singular and comprehensive text presents a focus on quantitative studies aiming to describe food digestion and the tools that are available for quantification. A case study relevant to real-world applications p
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food Digestion
Ourania Gouseti • Gail M. Bornhorst Serafim Bakalis • Alan Mackie Editors
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food Digestion
Editors Ourania Gouseti Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK Serafim Bakalis Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK
Gail M. Bornhorst Biological and Agricultural Engineering University of California Davis, CA, USA Alan Mackie School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds Leeds, UK
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Foreword
Better human nutrition is now openly declared as one of the United Nation’s Development Goals. Specifically, the objectives are “To promote healthy food systems and increase the focus on nutrition, with multiple implications for diet quality, vulnerable groups, and informed choice”. We now see the rise of the obesity epidemic in all nations, even to the point where overweight parents can have stunted children. At the same time, and in different locations, macronutrient levels remain critically low in some diets. Historically, the digestive tract has been regarded as a “black box”, where the inputs are dietary components providing calories and essential nutrients whose levels can be calculated from chemical analysis of individual food inputs. The outputs are measured by various biological criteria such as weight gain, metabolites and markers in
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