New trends in estimating food quality
1997
Penthauser, W. (Technical Univ. of Graz, Graz (Austria). Inst. of Food Chemistry andTechnology)
In overview it is given what food quality means today. It is helpful to define sub-qualities and to rank them according to individual wishes and attitudes. Depending on social and economic status, foodqualities are ranked. Health aspects in connection with food are today more andmore of public interest. This can be seen from so-called "nutraceuticals", having benefit to health. Amongst them all types of antioxidants are becoming of public as well as of scientific interest. This shows that scientific progress also fosters changes in food quality evaluation. Some examples for antioxidants in food and their influence at least on quality is given. In any case, food quality is a dynamic concept, subjected to sociological changes and perception of new scientific knowledge, which is defined according to a personal ranking orders of values
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