As global concerns over excessive animal consumption threaten both the planet and human health, Sustainable Plant Foods: A Scientific Approach to Alternative Food Sources, offers a scientific view into the cutting-edge world of plant-based nutrition and its transformative potential to heal and nourish. Addressing issues surrounding animal agricultures impact on well-being and the environment, this book shows a necessary need to shift from a diet of ecologically damaging animal foods to more plant-based solutions for optimal human health, nutrition and a more sustainable planet.
Sustainable Plant Foods: A Scientific Approach to Alternative Food Sources, takes a deep dive into new developments and sustainable challenges of plant-based alternatives. Authors discuss the nutritional benefits and overall potential of underutilized fruits, vegetables and legumes while also highlighting their sensory appeal. Chapters also address how sustainable plant diets can help overcome the problems associated with a diet of overprocessed foods. Chapters on extrusion, muscle fiber simulation, fermentation and scaffolding detail methods to develop clean label plant-based alternatives to eggs, meat, cheese and milk while mycoprotein and edible plant oils are introduced as the future of nonmeat protein and nutrition. Authors also discuss strategies and challenges for the valorization of plant food waste and by-products produced from the food industry.
1. Sustainable plant Foods
2. Plant food productivity and supply
3. New developments and sustainable challenges of plant-based foods
4. Future based sustainable grain crops
5. Utilization of underutilized fruits
6. Utilization of underutilized Vegetables: Novel Trend in Nutritious and
Healthy Food
7. Utilization of underutilized legumes for delivering nutritional and health
benefits
8. Plant-based Dairy Alternatives: A World of Nutritious Options
9. Utilization of Plant Food Waste: Sustainable Approaches and Innovations
10. Utilization of edible plant oils for delivering nutritional and health
benefits
11. Environmental effects and future of plant-food production
12. Designer foods from sustainable plant sources
13. Alternative proteins from plant based foods
14. Future Foods
15. Ultra processed foods and sustainable plant diets
16. Mycoprotein
Dr. Wani is currently working as DR. D.S. Kothari post-doctoral fellow in the department of Food Science and Technology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Kashmir, J&K, India. He completed his Masters Degree in Food Technology from IUST, Awantipora, J&K, India and PhD from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Punjab, India. His areas of interest include extrusion technology, food formulation, and innovative food product development.
Prof. Haroon Rashid Naik is the Director planning and monitoring at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Kashmir, J&K, India. He established the department of Food technology at IUST Awantipura and created the food tech programs in SKUAST. He has supervised more than 20 MSc. Students and 18 Ph.D students. His areas of interest include design and development of food processing machinery, new innovations in food processing and management of research activities. Dr. Salam A. Ibrahim is a Professor of Food Science in the Food and Nutritional Science Program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA. He has established a research program around dairy technology, yogurt starter cultures, probiotics, and bioconversion processes, in addition to food safety and the use of natural compounds to inhibit the growth of foodborne illnesses. His program is well-funded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture-United States Department of Agriculture (NIFA-USDA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other funding agencies. In addition, the food microbiology laboratory has strong connections with the food industry and often receives funds to support students around fermentation and the production of stable and functional probiotics products.
