Milk and dairy products: evaluation of bioactive components by analytical techniques


Autoria(s): Guerra, Elena
Contribuinte(s)

Caboni, Maria

Data(s)

29/05/2014

Resumo

Milk and dairy products are important source of bioactive compounds useful to satisfy the nutritional and physiological needs of any newborns of mammalian species and useful to guarantee adequate growth and development of infants as well as provide a complete nourishment of adults. Physico-chemical, nutritional and organoleptic properties of the main constituents and the “minor” components have a crucial role in the quality of milk and milk products. Although in the past decades dietary milk fat was often regarded as harmful for the human health, recent researches suggest that milk contains specific fatty acids with nutritional and physiological health benefits. For these reasons, a major attention is given to the quantity and quality of total fat intake. In the recent years, as a result of the new concept of multifunctional agriculture and the changing behaviours about diet, consumer demands in favor of high-quality, security and safety dairy products are increased. Moreover, milk proteins and milk-derived bioactive peptides are recognized to have a high nutritive value, several health-promoting functional activities and excellent technological properties. Accordingly, growing interest in the development of functional dairy products and preparation of infant formulae for babies who cannot be breast-fed, has been give in order to meet the specific consumer’s requests. This manuscript presents the main results obtained during my PhD research aimed to evaluate the main bioactive lipids and proteins in milk and dairy products using innovative analytical techniques. The experimental section of this manuscript is divided in two sections where are reported the main results obtained during my research activities on dairy products and human milks in order to characterize their bioactive compounds for functional food applications.

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6301/1/PhD_Thesis.pdf

urn:nbn:it:unibo-12930

Guerra, Elena (2014) Milk and dairy products: evaluation of bioactive components by analytical techniques , [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze e tecnologie agrarie, ambientali e alimentari <http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/view/dottorati/DOT515/>, 26 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/6301.

Idioma(s)

en

Publicador

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Relação

http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6301/

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Palavras-Chave #AGR/15 Scienze e tecnologie alimentari
Tipo

Tesi di dottorato

NonPeerReviewed