FROSTI

Food Science and Technology

About FROSTI
Who can benefit from using FROSTI?
How can FROSTI help you?
Subject Areas
Source Literature
Database Scope

About FROSTI

Increasingly, companies are recognising that the integration of technology in all aspects of the food business, from R&D through operations to sales and marketing, is central to their success. FROSTI, which is the world’s foremost authority on published information in the fields of food science and technology, can help you meet this objective.

FROSTI is an ideal starting point for any research programme, saving you valuable research time. Growing at a rate of more than 2,000 records per month, and with over 25 years of scientific and technical data available, FROSTI is one of the largest and most up-to-date database of its kind. It can provide you with extensive background, as well as giving you a clear overall picture of all the latest technological opportunities relevant to your research.

Adapting your products to reflect changing consumer demands is critical to maintaining market share. FROSTI can assist you in responding to these changes, keeping you in touch with new process and packaging innovations, and novel applications for existing process technologies, as well as highlighting the functionality of new food ingredients.

Drawing on over 25 years of scientific and technical data, FROSTI can help you solve manufacturing problems quickly and efficiently. Whether you are looking to ensure consistent quality, improve product shelf-life or get to the root of a microbiological problem, FROSTI can provide you with the solution.

Who can benefit from using FROSTI?

Providing access to an unrivalled collection of scientific and technical information, FROSTI is an essential tool for those working in, with or for the food and beverage industry. Foodline is utilised by food scientists in academia and industry, food technologists, librarians, product developers, government departments, newly qualified food scientists and technologists, manufacturers and industrialists, consumer associations, students, consultants and many others.

"I find FROSTI particularly useful because it often finds journal articles not found in the other food technology databases. The abstracts also tend to be more practical in approach and thus more directly relevant to the development of new food products".

Graham Jones - British Sugar plc.

How can FROSTI help you?

FROSTI gives you excellent current awareness, troubleshooting and research capabilities, enabling you to:

• Monitor advances in technology
• Solve manufacturing problems
• Improve process performance
• Support new R&D programmes
• Generate ideas for future research

Use FROSTI to help you answer questions such as:

• What factors affect the microbiological safety of prepared salad vegetables?
• Is there evidence to suggest that antioxidant vitamins can prevent disease?
• What parameters should be considered when selecting a sweetener for a low-calorie drink?
• What are the effects of microwave heating on packaging migration?
• What is the heat stability of the natural colours annatto and cochineal?

Subject areas

FROSTI comprehensively covers the science and technology of food processing and all types of food and drinks products.

Listed below are just some of the subject areas covered by FROSTI (click here for graphical representation):

Food Sciences Analytical Techniques Biochemistry Biophysics Chemistry Microbiology New Developments Physics Quality Control Sample Record	Hygiene & Toxicology Contaminants Food Safety Microbiological Aspects Public Health Shelf-life Spoilage Storage Toxicants Sample Record	Biotechnology Biotechnology Products Enzyme Systems Genetics Fermentation Technology Molecular Biology Protein Engineering Sample Record
Human Nutrition Allergies Consumer Research Dietary Regimes Food Composition Food & Health Probiotics Sensory Analysis Sample Record	Food Packaging Equipment Handling Materials Migration Packages Processes Transport Sample Record	Speciality Foods Dietetic Foods Fermented Foods Frozen Foods Functional Foods Infant Formulas Novel Foods Prepared Foods Protein Isolates Sample Record

Food Commodities Additives, spices and condiments Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages Bakery Products Cereals Cocoa & Chocolate Eggs & Egg Products Essential Oils Sample Record

Food Commodities Marine Products Meat, Poultry & Game Sauces Starches Sugar Confectionery Sugars & Syrups Fats Fish & Fish Products Sample Record

Source Literature

To ensure that the Foodline databases are of the highest quality and provide unrivalled currency, Leatherhead invests more than £135,000 per year in its Library. The Leatherhead Library subscribes to more than 700 current scientific, technical and trade journals, as well as purchasing more than 500 new books each year. Additionally, more than 7,000 patent applications are abstracted each month, comprehensive coverage is provided for PCT, EP, US, Japanese and UK Patents. FROSTI also includes references from conference proceedings, standards and legislation.

Database Scope

A particular strength of FROSTI is its currency, key journals being online often within a few weeks of delivery at Leatherhead. More than 1,000 international journal titles are held by the Leatherhead Food RA Library, of which over 550 current periodicals are scanned extensively for FROSTI. More than 500 book titles are added each year, from a total resource of over 12,000 publications. Books and conference proceedings are recorded by chapter, with approximately 4,000 chapter records entered every year. In addition, standards, Statutory Instruments and technical reports are included, as are patents (600 per month), including UK, European, US, World (PCT) and Japanese patents.

Each new record includes bibliographic details and an informative abstract, which gives a clear indication of the content and commercial relevance of the article. The indexing and searching systems used in FROSTI ensure that you can locate all the most relevant information quickly and simply. All entries are indexed in-depth, giving you the flexibility to search free-text across a record or to take advantage of the powerful thesaurus facilities.

Leatherhead Food Research Association
Randalls Road, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 7RY, England
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