Seafood: Effects of Technology on Nutrition

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CRC Press, May 16, 1990 - Technology & Engineering - 384 pages
Analyzes how the technology and commercial practices of cultivation affect the nutritive value of certain fish, molluscs, crustacea, and freshwater plants. Organized to reflect the sequence from growth, harvest, and capture, through transportation, storage, and processing, to packaging and distribut
 

Contents

Food From the Sea
1
Components of Seafood
32
Effects of Processing on Nutrients
66
General Considerations and Preprocessing
85
Adding and Removing Heat
104
Controlling Water Activity
136
Irradiation
176
Nutritional Qualities
206
Nutrient Composition of Minced Flesh
222
The Role of Marine Lipids in Human Nutrition
258
Extracting and Processing Marine Lipids
294
Commercial Farming of Fish
315
Appendix B Seaweeds
326
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Pigott, George M.; Tucker, Barbara

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