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Preface to the Second Edition

Food Chemistry: A Laboratory Manual, first edition, has been adopted by dozens of universities in the United States and internationally since it was published in 1998. The second edition has been extensively revised and with new chapters added. I was extremely fortunate to have Professor C.K. (Vincent) Yeung join me as a coauthor for the second edition. Dr. Yeung holds a B.S. in chemistry from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an M.S. in dairy products technology from California Polytechnic State University, and a Ph.D. in food science and technology from Cornell University. He is currently Associate Professor of Dairy Science at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. Dr. Yeung's knowledge and insights gained from his strong educational background and his years of teaching dairy chemistry laboratory classes were invaluable in making improvements in existing exercises and in developing new ones.

Our overarching goal in designing the laboratory exercises in the manual was to help students develop an in‐depth understanding of the fundamental chemical principles that underlie relationships between the composition of foods and food ingredients and their functional, nutritional, and sensory properties. In addition, students who complete the laboratory exercises will learn and practice many methods and techniques common in food chemistry research and food product development. We recommend the manual for a 2‐credit food chemistry laboratory course although it contains many more exercises (19) than can be reasonably completed in a 1‐semester course. This should allow instructors to select exercises that most closely provide the learning outcomes they wish to achieve.

Each chapter includes introductory summaries of key concepts and principles that are important for understanding the methods used and interpreting the results obtained from the experiments. In writing and revising these summaries, we relied heavily on two widely adopted food chemistry textbooks: Introductory Food Chemistry by John W. Brady, Cornell University Press, 2013, and Fennema's Food Chemistry, 5th edition, S. Damodaran and K. L. Parkin, editors, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. We encourage students to read relevant sections in these and/or other food chemistry textbooks in addition to the introductory material in the manual for a more rigorous discussion of the relevant topics.

Dennis D. Miller

Professor Emeritus

Department of Food Science, Cornell University

October 2021