1 - Recent Advances in the Application of Nanotechnology in Food Industry and the Vast Vision for the Future

Abstract

Nanotechnology today is moving at a rapid pace and surpassing one visionary paradigm over another. Food technology is linked with nanotechnology in a vast range of applications. Scientific truth, scientific vision, and deep scientific understanding in the field of nanotechnology are veritably challenging the scientific landscape of our present day human civilization. In this present treatise the author pointedly focuses on the vast areas of nanotechnology, effects of nanotechnology in food industries, nanotechnology in food processing, the science of nano-dispersions and nanocapsules, nanofibers, nanoceuticals, nanoemulsions, nanocoatings, nanoencapsulation, and the varied world of nanomaterials. Technology and engineering science of food processing industry are highly advanced today. The scientific prowess of human endeavor, the vast technological motivation, and the scientific objectives will all be the forerunners toward the true realization of nanoscience and nanotechnology today. The author, with deep and cogent insight, described and discussed the effects of nanotechnology in food industries, the latest emerging application in food nanotechnology, intricacies of nanotechnology in food engineering, and public perception of nanotechnology. This treatise also gives a comprehensive glimpse of application of nanotechnology in the domain of water treatment and the wide domain of food and beverage industry. Membrane science and novel separation processes are the wider domain of science of chemical process engineering. This treatise also deals lucidly with the scientific success and the immense scientific potential of nanofiltration and nanotechnology in the advancements and achievements of science and engineering. Water science and water technology are the vital and pivotal areas of scientific and engineering endeavor today. This chapter also gives a comprehensive review of today’s interface of water technology with nanoscience and nanotechnology. The broad concepts of nanotechnology and food and beverage industry are dealt with immense scientific insight in this treatise. This chapter also opens up new windows of innovation and scientific adjudication in the field of recent scientific pursuit in food industry and nanotechnology.