Handbook Beverage

This comprehensive book presents key issues in the technology of the soft drinks industry. Employing a user-friendly format and writing style, the author draws on more than thirty-five years' hands-on experience in technical management in the soft drinks industry.

There are more than 980,000 restaurant and foodservice locations in the United States. The restaurant share of the food dollar is approximately 48%. The industry employs 13.1 million people.

This reference studies an expansive range of starter cultures and manufacturing procedures for popular alcoholic beverages and bakery, dairy, meat, cereal, soy, and vegetable food products—focusing on the quality of the final food product, flavor formation, and new advances in the development of starter cultures for dairy fermentations using recent examples that depict the main species used, their characteristics, and their impact on the development of other fermented foods.