Table of Contents

1. Managing Metabolic Health Impact of Fructose-Containing Beverages 2. Technology and Nutritional Value of Powdered Drinks 3. Fortification in Beverages 4. Management of Plant-Derived Beverages of North-East India: A Traditional Approach 5. Fruit Agroindustrial Wastes for Preparing Beverages for Medicinal Purposes by Supercritical Fluid Extraction Technology. Andes Berry (Rubus glaucus benth) Case 6. Tracing Fruits and Vegetables from Farm to Fork: Questions of Novelty and Efficiency 7. Hydrodynamic Cavitation-Assisted Processing of Vegetable Beverages: Review and the Case of Beer-Brewing 8. Kombucha Drink: Production, Quality, and Safety Aspects 9. Molle Beer Production in the Ayacucho Valley, Peru 10. Profiling Beer Consumers for Brewery Management 11. Sugarcane Spirits (Cachaça) Quality Assurance and Traceability: An Analytical Perspective 12. Wine Consumption into a Certain Territory: Which Factors May Impact on It? 13. Alcoholic Beverage Production in Indochina: Local Wisdom, Safety, Quality, and Legal Control 14. Production of Fermented Beverages: Shedding Light on Indian Culture and Traditions  15. Industry 4.0: The Smart Factory of the Future in Beverage Industry

About the Author

Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu is a lecturer in the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, at the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. He is an experienced researcher and published editor in the field of nano and biostructures. He is the editor-in-chief of two international open access journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience. Dr. Grumezescu has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, authored nine books, and has served as an editor for more than 50 scholarly books. Alina-Maria Holban is a lecturer in Microbiology and Immunology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; and associate researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Her primary area of research is the development of bionanomaterials with antimicrobial applications. Dr. Holban has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 42 conference/symposia proceedings, and has edited more than 21 edited books.