Phospholipid Technology and Applications, edited by Frank D. Gunstone and published by The Oily Press

Edited by Frank D. Gunstone, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, Scotland.

April 2008. Hard cover. 213 pages, 45 figures, 28 tables and 553 references. ISBN 978-0-9552512-2-1.
Volume 22 in The Oily Press Lipid Library. Price £85 or US$174.

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Phospholipid Technology and Applications should be of special value to technologists developing food and cosmetics products, scientists researching phospholipids in biological and food systems, technologists in fats and oils refining, and scientists developing drugs and drug delivery systems and carriers.

It is widely accepted that oil and water do not mix but there are several areas in science and technology where these two distinct phases must coexist in stable emulsions. This is achieved by admixture of amphiphilic molecules of which the phospholipids are important natural examples. Today phospholipids find many uses in the food industry and in other industries which exploit the amphiphilic nature of these compounds. Further, there are now important procedures by which their amphiphilicity can be optimized for different uses. The recent discovery of natural phospholipids containing omega-3 fatty acids has also contributed to the interest in these compounds, with several nutrition products already on sale.

The contents include chapters dealing with:

Chemical structure and biological function
Tong Wang
Major sources, composition and processing
Michael Schneider
Enzymatic modification of phospholipids and related polar lipids
Xuebing Xu, Anders Falk Vikbjerg, Zheng Guo, Long Zhang and Ashish Kumar Acharya
Uses of phospholipids as functional ingredients
Ernesto Hernandez and Nathalie Quezada
Physical properties of phospholipids
Anders Carlsson
Chemical modification
Alice Bonekamp
Clinical and nutritional properties of phospholipids
Asim K. Duttaroy
Sphingolipids
Åke Nilsson

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