Food Science 741 - Lipid Chemistry
Spring
2022
01
3.00
Eric Decker
TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM
UMass Amherst
38380
Chenoweth Lab room 113
edecker@foodsci.umass.edu
Composition and chemical properties of edible fats and oils. Physical characteristics/plasticity, polymorphism, melting, solidification. Technology of industrial fats-extraction, refining, hydrogenation, inter-esterification. Deteriorative reactions oxidation, thermal degradation. Biological significance. New methods of analysis. Review of current literature. Mr. Decker