Military food engineering and ration technology
Written by a team from the U.S. Army's Combat Feeding Directorate at the Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center, this technical volume represents a comprehensive guide to how the military designs, processes, customizes, packages and distributes highly palatable, long shelf-life foo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lancaster, PA
DEStech
2012
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| Summary: | Written by a team from the U.S. Army's Combat Feeding Directorate at the Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center, this technical volume represents a comprehensive guide to how the military designs, processes, customizes, packages and distributes highly palatable, long shelf-life food products for field personnel. The book offers new data on numerous technologies used to solve problems such as nutrient densification, lightweighting, novel thermal processing, and long-term quality preservation in delivering appetizing foods. Testing techniques are explained for evaluating sensory qualities of foods and their effects on physical and cognitive performance. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 489 p. ill. 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781605950495 |