Milk-Based Beverages. Volume 9: The Science of Beverages

Table of Contents

1. Engineering of Milk-Based Beverages: Current Status, Developments, and Consumer Trends 2. Engineering Tools in Milk-Based Beverages 3. Dairy-Based Functional Beverages 4. New Trends and Perspectives in Functional Dairy-Based Beverages 5. Recent Trends and Developments in Milk-Based Beverages 6. Production of Functional Milk-Based Beverages 7. Traditional Beverages in Different Countries: Milk-Based Beverages 8. Kefir Beverage and Its Effects on Health 9. The Supply Chains of Cow Grass-Fed Milk 10. Technology of Dairy-Based Beverages 11. Rheological Properties of Milk-Based Beverages 12. Nonthermal Processing of Dairy Beverages 13. Rheological Characterization and Pipeline Transport Needs of Two Fluid Dairy Products (Flavored Milk and Yogurt) 14. Dairy and Nondairy-Based Beverages as a Vehicle for Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Symbiotics: Alternatives to Health Versus Disease Binomial Approach Through Food 15. The Effect of Dairy Probiotic Beverages on Oral Health

Authors

Alexandru Grumezescu Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science and Faculty of Medical Engineering, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu is a lecturer in the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, at the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. He is an experienced researcher and published editor in the field of nano and biostructures. He is the editor-in-chief of two international open access journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience. Dr. Grumezescu has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, authored nine books, and has served as an editor for more than 50 scholarly books. Alina Maria Holban Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Romania. Alina-Maria Holban is a lecturer in Microbiology and Immunology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; and associate researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Her primary area of research is the development of bionanomaterials with antimicrobial applications. Dr. Holban has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 42 conference/symposia proceedings, and has edited more than 21 edited books.