The diverse segments of the snack industries that generate close to $520 billion of annual sales are adapting to new consumer´s expectations especially in terms of convinience flavor shelf life and nutritional and health claims. Snack Foods: Processing Innovation and Nutritional Aspects was conceptualized to thoroughly cover practical and scientific aspects related to the chemistry technology processing functionality quality control analysis and nutrition and health implications of the wide array of snacks derived from grains fruits/vegetables milk and meat/poultry/seafood. This book focuses on novel topics influencing food product development like innovation new emerging technologies and the manufacturing of nutritious and health-promoting snacks with a high processing efficiency. The up-to-date chapters provide technical reviews emphasising flavored salty snacks commonly used as finger foods including popcorn wheat-based products (crispbreads pretzels crackers) lime-cooked maize snacks (tortilla chips and corn chips) extruded items (expanded and half products or pellets) potato chips peanuts almonds tree nuts and products derived from fruits/vegetables milk animal and marine sources. Key Features: Describes traditional and novel processes and unit operatios used for the industrial production of plant and animal-based snacks. Depicts major processes employed for the industrial production of raw materials oils flavorings and packaging materials used in snack food operations. Contains relevant and updated information about quality control and nutritional attributes and health implications of snack foods. Includes simple to understand flowcharts relevant information in tables and recent innovations and trends. Divided into four sections Snack Foods aims to understand the role of the major unit operations used to process snacks like thermal processes including deep-fat frying seasoning packaging and the emerging 3-D printing technology. Moreover the book covers the processing and characteristics of the most relevant raw materials used in snack operations like cereal-based refined grits starches and flours followed by chapters for oils seasoning formulations and packaging materials. The third and most extensive part of the book is comprised of several chapters which describe the manufacturing and quality control of snacks mentioned above. The fourth section is comprised of two chapters related to the nutritional and nutraceutical and health-promoting properties of all classes of snacks discussed herein. | Snack Foods Processing Innovation and Nutritional Aspects