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Comprehensive resource on probiotics as applied to ice cream and frozen desserts, covering fundamentals, development, technology, and quality control

Probiotic Ice Cream is the first book to look at probiotics as applied to ice cream and frozen desserts, covering the whole product development process, from essential fundamentals to formulation and characterization of the final product.

Written by a highly qualified specialist with significant research experience in this unique field, Probiotic Ice Cream includes information on:

• Science of probiotic ice cream, covering principles of probiotics and how to select appropriate probiotic strains for use in ice cream
• Physical protection of probiotics in ice cream conditions, as well as nutritional value of functional ice cream for humans
• Technology of probiotic ice cream, covering the definition, formulation, and characterization of prebiotic, probiotic, synbiotic and postbiotic ice creams
• Quality control, with information on the physico-chemical and rheological properties, sensory properties, and shelf-life evaluation and packaging of probiotic ice cream

Probiotic Ice Cream is an authoritative, comprehensive, and one-of-a-kind reference on the subject, ideal for dairy scientists, frozen desserts manufacturers, supermarkets, and food product developers, as well as students in related programs of study.