Dictionaries and encyclopedias for food and nutrition
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- when starting a project
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There are two key online resources which give access to hundreds of dictionaries and encyclopedias:
Useful reference works for food and nutrition: selected titles
Official methods of analysis of AOAC International
2nd Floor Reference--543-AOA
Handbook of nutrition and food
2nd Floor Reference--613.2-HAN
Encyclopedia of human nutrition
2nd Floor Reference--613.203-ENC
Codex Alimentarius (Food standards)
2nd Floor Reference--614.31-COD
Also available online
Encyclopedia of dairy sciences
2nd Floor Reference--637.03-ENC
Encyclopedia of meat sciences
2nd Floor Reference--641.3603-ENC
World atlas of wine
2nd Floor Reference--663.2-JOH
The atlas of food: who eats what, where and why
2nd Floor Reference--664-ATL
Encyclopedia of food microbiology
2nd Floor Reference--664.00157903-ENC
Bender's dictionary of nutrition and food technology
2nd Floor Reference--664.003-BEN
Dictionary of food science and technology
2nd Floor Reference--664.003-DIC
Encyclopedia of agricultural, food and biological engineering
2nd Floor Reference--664.003-ENC
Encyclopedia of food science and technology
2nd Floor Reference--664.003-ENC
Encyclopedia of food sciences and nutrition
2nd Floor Reference--664.003-ENC
Food additives data book
2nd Floor Reference--664.06-FOO
Food chemicals codex
2nd Floor Reference--664.06-FOO
McCance and Widdowson's The composition of foods
2nd Floor Reference--664.07-MAC
Approved methods of the American Association of Cereal Chemists
2nd Floor Reference--664.7204-AME