This new edition provides a simple, yet comprehensive, treatment of food chemistry suited to undergraduate courses. This fully referenced text contains hundreds of examples and cases studies illustrating the chemical changes observed in foods due to processing. It presents six new chapters on the chemistry of food components and six new chapters introducing concepts and principles of food chemistry. It also contains a new chapter introducing food phase and physical transformations. The author provides web support for teachers including teaching resources, useful experiments, illustrative demonstrations, and study questions.