The Science and Culture of Latin American Foods

Harnessing Ingredients for Health
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-33405-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 485 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

The Science and Culture of Latin American Foods: Harnessing Ingredients for Health combines science and technology to demonstrate the importance of rescuing and preserving traditional and ancestral knowledge to exploit the functional benefits of the regions’ many roots, plants, seeds, insects, and more. Divided into four sections, Ingredients, Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods, and Cuisine, the book discusses the sustainable development of these ingredients while highlighting origin, production, classification, and medicinal properties. Readers will discover the potential of potent bioactive peptides derived from native foods like cacao, chipilín leaves, and Huauzontle, a pre-Hispanic ingredient thriving and surviving in Mexican cuisine.

In addition, they will learn how Asia and Africa influence Latin American cuisine and about the importance these regional culinary dishes have in global gastronomy today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sáyago-Ayerdi, Sonia G

Tunick, Michael H

Piña, Guadalupe Flavia Loarca

Córdova, Aarón F González

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Ernährungsmedizin, Diätetik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Mexican food: A UNESCO intangible cultural heritage of humanity 2. Colombian Gastronomic Heritage 3. Bioactive peptides derived from artisanal cocoa bean fermentation Ingredients 4. Cocoa: Food for gods 5. Uses and potential health benefits of purple corn: a Mesoamerican ancient food for the XXI century 6. Chipilin, nutritional and functional properties and their use in Chiapas cuisine. 7. Huauzontle: multifunctional properties of a pre-Hispanic ingredient that survives in Mexican cuisine 8. Yacon: an ancestral root with a modern approach to food science 9. Brosimum alicastrum Sw. seed (Ramon tree): an unconventional ingredient to prepare healthy food 10. Carob: the forgotten Mediterranean food 11. Tannat grape, the Uruguayan emblematic variety: composition and potential effects on health of wine and its byproducts 12. Quinoa: The Functional Food Revolution Nutraceutical Foods 13. Nutraceutical and innovative foods using common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and maize (Zea mays L.) as ingredients 14. Hibiscus sabdariffa: an ancestral Asian plant-food and their multicultural influence in Mesoamerica 15. More than a simple drink: traditions, uses and bioactive properties of yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) 16. Fruits from Colombia to the World 17. Nutritional and functional potential of Non-Traditional Uruguayan fruits in the process of commercial development Functional Foods 18. Unconventional foods from southern Mexico: properties and consumption 19. Mole: a symphony of smells and flavors from Mexico to the world 20. Mexican edible insects: nutraceutical potential and culinary applications 21. Edible insects: Processing technologies for their utilization 22. Beans: Ancestral food important for human health 23. Asian influence in tropical fruits traditionally consumed in Mexican gastronomy 24. Unconventional food plants from Brazil 25. Brazilian Tucumã fruits (Astrocaryum spp.): The missing link between science and traditional knowledge 26. Mexican Artisanal Cheeses: Preserving typicity and genuity through lactic acid bacteria cooperation. Cuisine 27. Cuisine of nuns from post-viceroyalty Mexico: Functional or just "Mexicatessen"? 28. The relationship between dweller and mangrove: Taxtihil a ceremonial dish 29. Valorization of regional cuisine in the Costa Chica: Cultural background, culinary uses and potential health benefits

Über Autor(innen)

Piña, Guadalupe Flavia Loarca
Dr. Guadalupe Flavia Loarca Piña, has a BS in Biology Chemistry from Universidad Autonoma

de Queretaro (UAQ), MS in Experimental Biology from the Universidad de Guanajuato and a PhD in Food Science from Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Mexico. She is a professor and researcher with a PRODEP profile and belongs to the National System of Researchers (SNI). She and her team of students, colleagues and visiting scholars have published over 140 peer reviewed articles and 10 book chapters. She participates as a member of the Technical Committee of the National Network for Research, Innovation and Development in Functional and Nutraceutical Foods (AlfaNutra) and member of Institute of Food Technologist (IFT). Dr. Loarca-Pina has increased the understanding and the health benefits of bioactive compounds in the Mexican diet.

Sáyago-Ayerdi, Sonia G
Sonia G. Sayago-Ayerdi has a PhD in Nutrition from the Complutense University of Madrid. She began her career as a teacher at the Technological Institute of Acapulco, and was trained as a researcher thanks to the support of the General Directorate of the Technological Institutes, now the National Technological Institute of Mexico. After her PhD, she joined the Graduate Program of the Technological Institute of Tepic. She is Coordinator of the Network of Underutilized Native Foods (ALSUB-CYTED, 118RT0543) of the Ibero-American Program of Science and Technology for Development, member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, member of the steering committee of the Mexican Association in Food Sciences (AMECA) during the periods 2015-17 and 2017-19, and Associated Editor in Food Chemistry of Elsevier.

Córdova, Aarón F González
Aarón F. González Córdova is a research professor at the Laboratory of Chemistry and Biotechnology of Dairy Products and of Quality, Authenticity and Traceability of Food in the Department of Animal-Based Food Technology at CIAD. He leads research projects focused on functional foods, science and technology of milk and its derivatives, and quality, authenticity, and traceability of food. He supports small producers of artisanal cheese in Mexico, promoting artisanal cheese making, both in Mexico and abroad. He is also the coordinator of the Research, Innovation, and Technological Development of Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals Network (Red AlFaNutra) where he promotes healthy and functional nutrition by revaluating traditional foods in ancestral diets and by reducing food waste.

Tunick, Michael H
Michael H. Tunick is a retired chemist and research chemist at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) with 40 years' experience where he created new dairy products and expanded marketability of existing products. Dr. Tunick has expertise in thermal analysis using differential scanning calorimetry, microstructural analysis using scanning and transmission electron microscopy, microbiology of bacteria, and rheology of materials using texture profile analysis and small amplitude oscillatory shear analysis. After retiring, he became a full-time professor at Drexel University where he teaches various food science courses including Cheesemaking and mentors students in the M.S. Food Science program. Dr. Tunick has authored or coauthored over 140 publications, has coedited ten books including three on Hispanic food, and has co-chaired over 20 symposia in the Division of Agricultural & Food Chemistry (AGFD) in the American Chemical Society (ACS).