Foods that affect specific functions or systems in the human body, providing health benefits
beyond energy and nutrients—functional foods—have experienced rapid market growth in …

Fruit classification is a difficult challenge due to the numerous types of fruits. In order to
recognize fruits more accurately, we proposed a hybrid classification method based on …

Dairy starter cultures are actively growing cultures of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) to drive the
fermentation process. At first, only artisanal starters were used. Though they are still used in …

The health of gastrointestinal tract affects by numerous factors and probiotics are of the most
important. There are two main ways to increase the population of viable probiotic bacteria …

1.1 Introduction e food industry is the second largest sector after automobiles, and its market
is increasing quite dynamically. is sector is catering to the needs and perceptions of the …

A number of dairy products have evolved over the past decades including cultured
buttermilk, sour cream, yoghurt, ymer, taetmojolk, folkjolk, dahi, zabadi, kefir, kumys, and …

The term functional food was first proposed in Japan in the last decade of the twentieth
century. Apart from functional food available in nature, at least four categories of functional …

Data mining is the method of extracting the valuable systematic information from huge
databases. Image classification has constantly been a vital task for several applications such …

All those who, in any way and in any role, become part of food production processes, are
required to keep the environments, equipment and machines in adequate hygienic …

20.1 Introduction e market of functional foods,“foods that promote health beyond providing
basic nutrition,” is ourishing worldwide nowadays. e functional foods contain probiotics …