Chemistry's Role in Food Production and Sustainability: Past and Present

Mary Virginia Orna, Gillian Eggleston, Alvin F. Bopp, Victoria L. Finkenstadt, Livia Simon Sarkadi, Marilyn D. Duerst, Gillian Eggleston, Jonathan Rees, Mary Virginia Orna, Patrick E. McGovern, Livia Simon Sarkadi, Linda Civitello, Elke Schoffers, Eric C. de Ronde, Albert P. Gaudé, Patrick L. Daubenmire, Alvin F. B, Mary Virginia Orna, Gillian Eggleston, Alvin F. Bopp, Mary Virginia Orna, Gillian Eggleston, Alvin F. Bopp

• Publisher: American Chemical Society
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9780841234277
• Print ISBN:
  9780841234277

Table of contents

• Chemistry’s Role in Food Production and Sustainability: Past and Present
• ACS Symposium Series1314
• Foreword
• Part I. Setting the Context
• Introduction: Chemistry Feeds the World
• Historic Role of the United States Department of Agriculture in Food Production, Quality, and Security
• Part II. Sustainability in the Past
• Impact of Agriculture on Food Supply: A History
• The Critical Impact of NaCl on Human History and Development
• History of Sugar and Sweeteners
• Harvey Wiley and the Transformation of the American Diet
• Carotenoids, Cochineal, and Copper: Food Coloring Through the Ages
• Alcoholic Beverages as the Universal Medicine before Synthetics
• Effects of Fertilizer on Food Supply
• Part III. Sustainability in the Present
• The Evolution of Flour: From New England Graham to New Orleans Swans Down
• Guilt by Association: Can Chemists Lead the Way Out of the Nutritional Advice Wilderness?
• Role of Chemical Analysis in Food Safety and Food Authentication
• Relative Sea Level Rise: Consequences to Louisiana Fisheries
• Genetically Modified Organisms as a Food Source: History, Controversy, and Hope
• The Evolution of Food Preservation and Packaging
• Part IV. Food and the Future
• Food Chemistry as a Vital Science: Past, Present, Future
• Editors’ Biographies
• Indexes
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• Part I. Setting the Context
• Introduction: Chemistry Feeds the World
• Historic Role of the United States Department of Agriculture in Food Production, Quality, and Security
• Part II. Sustainability in the Past
• Impact of Agriculture on Food Supply: A History
• The Critical Impact of NaCl on Human History and Development
• History of Sugar and Sweeteners
• Harvey Wiley and the Transformation of the American Diet
• Carotenoids, Cochineal, and Copper: Food Coloring Through the Ages
• Alcoholic Beverages as the Universal Medicine before Synthetics
• Effects of Fertilizer on Food Supply
• Part III. Sustainability in the Present
• The Evolution of Flour: From New England Graham to New Orleans Swans Down
• Guilt by Association: Can Chemists Lead the Way Out of the Nutritional Advice Wilderness?
• Role of Chemical Analysis in Food Safety and Food Authentication
• Relative Sea Level Rise: Consequences to Louisiana Fisheries
• Genetically Modified Organisms as a Food Source: History, Controversy, and Hope
• The Evolution of Food Preservation and Packaging
• Part IV. Food and the Future
• Food Chemistry as a Vital Science: Past, Present, Future
• Editors’ Biographies
• Indexes
• Author Index
• Subject Index