FUNCTIONAL FAT PRODUCTS

The monograph devoted to functional fat products - spreads, considers theoretical questions of the relationship between nutrition and human health, as well as the role of fats and their components in nutrition. Information is given about functional fat products - analogues of butter. Problems of application of functional ingredients forming human microbiocenosis are considered: pro-, pre- and synbiotics in spread technology. The results of applied research into the development of spreads technology with encapsulated synbiotics are stated in detail. The proposed technology allows to create a synbiotic fat product with a prolonged shelf life which can ensure a polyfunctional physiological effect on various systems of the human body when consumed. This book is intended for food industry workers, researchers, teachers, students, postgraduates of educational and research organizations of food profile.