H Panda
33 books
Proteins play an important role in nutrition, taste, allergies, texture, structure, processing and yield performance. In the food industry, proteins are a key element of our diet and an important ingredient for food technologists. The total protein component of milk is composed of numerous specific proteins. Isolated milk protein products represents an important and valuable source of protein ingredients due to their recognized superior nutritional, organoleptic ...
Bamboo is an important non-wood forest product. In India, bamboo, which is traditionally considered the poor man's wood, and labelled as green gold is being considered a major export item by the centre for the global market. Bamboo is perfectly suited to agro-forestry as a woody grass. Bamboo has been exploited from natural stands from time immemorial. Bamboo is increasingly being cultivated like other agricultural crops, that is, in professionally managed ...
Tea is one of the most popular beverages that are being consumed all over the world. Tea is known as a soothing drink and a way of life. Tea offers tremendous scope of emerging as practical chemo preventive included in a healthy diet for protection of the general consumers by lowering the risk of different types of cancer.
Growing tea requires sufficient amount of work and there is additional level of work that must be incorporated to harvest it. Tea is ...
Alkyd resins are the synthetic resins which have a dominant position among the synthetic resins with respect of production volume and the frequency of the use in paint and varnish materials. Despite the growing popularity of acrylic, polyurethane and epoxy resins, alkyd resins remain highly favoured among paint producers for its variability of compositions and better value for money.
Experts believe that the total consumption of paint and varnish materials will ...
Natural products have played an important role throughout the world in treating and preventing human diseases. Natural product medicines have come from various materials including terrestrial plants, terrestrial microorganisms, organisms etc. Historical experiences with plants as therapeutic tools have helped to introduce single chemical entries in modern medicine.About 40% of the drugs used are derived from natural sources. Most are pure substances which are ...
Fruits and vegetables are an important nutritional requirement of human beings as these foods not only meet the quantitative needs to some extent but also supply vitamins and minerals which improve the quality of the diet and maintain health. It is, therefore, necessary to make them available for consumption throughout the year in fresh or processed/preserved form. Fruit, vegetables and oil seeds processing is one to the pillars of the food and edible oil ...
Textile industry in India is the second largest employment generator after agriculture. It holds significant status in India as it provides one of the fundamental necessities of the people. The Indian textile industry is the second largest in the world, second only to China. Textile processing is one of the important industries related with textile manufacturing operations. It is a general term that covers right from singeing to finishing and printing of fabric ...
Nanoscience is an interdisciplinary field that have encompassed physics, biology, engineering chemistry and computer science, among others, the prefix nano appears with increasing frequency in scientific journals and the news. Thus, as we increase our ability to fabricate computer chips with smaller features and improve our ability to cure disease at the molecular level, nanotechnology is at the doorstep. Scientists and engineers believe that the fabrication of ...
Starch is a group of poly saccharides, composed of glucopyranose units joined together by glucosidric linkages. Industrially, starch is broadly divided in to two types of viz, natural and modified. The characteristics of the natural starches are changed by chemical are enzymatic reaction and the products of these reactions are termed modified starches. Starch can be obtained from maize, sorghum, roots and tubers such as tapioca, arrow root, potatoes etc. This ...
Pesticides, Insecticides, Fungicides and Herbicides are used in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, commercial centers and houses for the pest control. During last 35 years, consumption of these products has increased manifold and industries are coming up throughout the world due to its increasing demand. The book contains formulae, processes of different types of pesticides, insecticides, fungicides and herbicides. This book will serve as a guide to ...
With the development of science and technology, essential oils are becoming popular due to its uses in the manufacturing of different products. This versatile book takes recourse to most pragmatic formulae on diversified essential oils. Overall the book contains formulae, processes which are immensely inovative and profoundly ...
There are plenty of marketing niches and slots to be filled in the Snacks Food area. This book attempts to provide the processes for the manufacture of various Snacks food items which has tremendous domestic and export market. It is believes that the book may be of immense value and interest to the new entrepreneurs, research institutes, professionals, industry people and libraries.
Soaps and Detergents are being used by all from low to high income groups. this industry is perfoundly lusrative with splendid market potential as well as bright future. the global interest is turning from synthetic to herbal products.The book covers formulae, processes of different types of herbal soaps & detergents being used in daily life. This is the first book of its kind, which is very helpful for those who wants to venture in to herbal products. ...
The versatile book takes recourse of pragmatic formulae of diversified herbal perfumes and cosmetics. Over all, the book contains formulae, processes, technicalities which are immensely innovative and profoundly utilitarian for new entrepreneur as well as motivate the existing units in quality improvement and cost reduction.
Indians Medical System advocates the use of medicinal plants as drug source. Drugs obtained from plant origin occupy important position in different pharmacopoeias. Products from natural sources are an integral part of human health care system because of major concern about synthetic drugs and their side effects and toxicity. The ancient Indian system of medicine needs verification on modern scientific basis. An attempt to blend ancient and modern science as well ...
This is the first book of its kind which contains formulae, processes of different types of Ayurvedic medicines like tablets, churn, capsules, syrups, sharbats, pastes etc. used in various diseases. The book will be very useful for entrepreneurs, industrialists, project consultants, institutions, libraries etc.
The forest in India yields a large number of products, which play an important role in the economy of the country. This book contains processes of forest-based products like Gums, Resins, Oleo Resins, Essential Oils and other natural products obtained from Indian forests. It gives an insight of richness and vastness of the forest wealth. This book is first of its kind, which covers comprehensive treasure of information on a wide variety of forestry products. It ...
Medicinal plants have been used as a major source of therapeutic agents by human being for thousands of years. Ancient men obtained more than 90% of his medicaments from higher plants. However, the importance of plants as a source of drugs decreased to certain extent. Inspite of the fact that synthetic drugs and antibiotics have improved the life expectancy of man, plants still constitute as one of the major sources of raw materials for drugs all over the world. ...
The book covers different Parameters of Medicinal Plants Cultivation and various ways of their uses. It covers Medicinal Plants containing alkaloids, steroids, flavonoids, glycosides, terpenoids, additives and other active metabolites. We hope that this book will be useful not only for technologists, professionals, but also for farmers, traders, exporters and importers of Medicinal Plants.
In recent years, there has been a tremendous growth of interest in plant based drugs, pharmaceuticals, perfumery products, cosmetics and aroma compounds used in food flavours and fragrances and natural colours in the world. There is a definite trend to adopt plant based products due to the cumulative derogatory effects resulting from the use of antibiotic and synthetics and except for a few cultivated crops, the availability of plant based material is mainly from ...
Medicinal herbs are the local heritage with global importance. World is endowed with a rich wealth of medicinal herbs. The variety and sheer number of plants with therapeutic properties is quite astonishing. Medicinal herbs have curative properties due to presence of various complex chemical substance of different composition, which are found as secondary plant metabolites in one or more parts of these plants. These plant metabolites according to their ...