Main description:

Studies have provided evidence that consumption of small fruits is beneficial to human health, which in turn has created an increased demand for these fruits. As a result, research on food and flavor quality has increased within both the horticulture and food science fields. This Symposium Series book combines in one volume research on flavor and on the health benefits of small fruits.

Flavor of fruits is largely determined by the content and variety of the volatile compounds. One section of the book is devoted on volatiles in small fruits, and consists of chapters that discuss not only fractionation and characterization volatiles for flavor and aroma, but also discuss improvement of fruit quality through crop breeding, cultural practices, post-harvesting and processing. Another section of this book has grouped chapters that discuss various beneficial properties of berries
and extracts, including antioxidant, hypolipidemic, antiviral, and tumor cell growth inhibitory effects. The last section of this book has grouped together chapters that report isolation, characterization, methods of analysis and testing of bioactivity of compounds using small organisms. The use of
edible coating to enhance flavor and health effects of berry fruits is also included in this section.

The book concludes with a chapter on metabolic engineering in strawberries, the first study of its kind, which reports on manipulating secondary metabolite biosynthetic pathways leading to increased production of a specific flavan-3-ol and the discovery of a dormant biosynthetic pathway of strawberry volatiles using a transient RNA interference method.

Contents:

Preface ; Overview ; 1. Flavor of Small Fruits - Gary Reineccius ; 2. Evaluating Health Benefits of Various Fruits - Talwinder S. Kahlon ; Volatiles in Small Fruit ; 3. Flavor Chemistry of Small Fruits: Blackberry, Raspberry, and Blueberry - Xiaofen Du and Michael Qian ; 4. Fractionation and Identification of Aroma-Active Constituents in Thornless Trailing 'Black Diamond' Blackberry - Xiaofen Du and Michael Qian ; 5. Aroma-Impact Components of "Carlos" Muscadine Grape Juice - Gwo-Yuh Liu and Keith R. Cadwallader ; 6. Effect of Edible Coating on Volatile Compounds of Hardy Kiwifruit during Storage ; Erning Yang, Yanyun Zhao, and Michael C. Qian ; 7. Effects of Germplasm Origin and Fruit Character on Volatile Composition of Peaches and Nectarines ; Yiju Wang, Feng Chen, Jinbao Fang, Chunxiang Yang, Jianbo Zhao, Quan Jiang, and Shaohua Li ; Potential Health Benefits of Berry Fruits and Constituents ; 8. Health Benefits of Berries for Potential Management of Hyperglycemia and Hypertension - Marcia da Silva Pinto and Kalidas Shetty ; 9. Vasoactive and Vasoprotective Antioxidant Properties of Anthocyanin-Enriched Berry Extracts - David R. Bell ; 10. Colonic Availability of Bilberry Anthocyanins in Humans - Michael Kraus, Kathrin Kahle, Friedericke Ridder, Markus Schantz, Wolfgang Scheppach, Peter Schreier, and Elke Richling ; 11. Cranberry and Grape Juice Drinks Affect Infectivity, Integrity, and Pathology of Enteric Viruses in an Animal Model - Steven M. Lipson, Ronald E. Gordon, Laina Karthikeyan, Manpreet Singh, Allen Burdowski, Martin Roy, and Guenther Stotzky ; 12. Flavonoid Fractions from Cranberry Extract Inhibit Growth of Human Tumor Cell Lines - Peter J. Ferguson, David J. Freeman, and James Koropatnick ; 13. Acai (Euterpe oleracea) - Alexander G. Schauss, Gitte S. Jensen, and Xianli Wu ; Bioassay and Analytical Methods and Food Technology ; 14. Using Caenorhabditis elegans To Study Bioactivities of Natural Products from Small Fruits - Mark A. Wilson, Piper R. Hunt, and Catherine A. Wolkow ; 15. Characterization of Antioxidants in Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houttuyn) Oil - H. J. Kim, F. Chen, X. Wang, Y. Wang, J. McGregor, and Y. M. Jiang ; 16. Characterization of Acylated Flavonoid Glycosides from Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) Juice Concentrate by Preparative HSCCC/ESI-MS-MS - Gerold Jerz, Derek Gutzeit, and Peter Winterhalter ; 17. Preparative Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Berries - Peter Winterhalter, Tuba Esatbeyoglu, and Andrea Wilkens ; 18. Edible Coatings for Enhancing Quality and Health Benefits of Berry Fruits - Yanyun Zhao ; 19. Metabolic Engineering in Fragaria x ananassa for the Production of Epiafzelechin and Phenylpropenoids - W. Schwab, T. Hoffmann, and M. Griesser