Dietary Fiber: Extraction, Properties and Modifications for Food Applications

Tabli Ghosh is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Engineering and Technology at Tezpur University, India. She obtained her PhD degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. During her PhD, she has received DST INSPIRE Fellowship. Dr. Ghosh was a special research student at the United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University, Japan, during her PhD with JASSO Fellowship. Additionally, she has also been the gold medalist during her Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology in the Department of Food Engineering and Technology at Tezpur University, India. Her work mainly focuses on food nanotechnology, functional materials, sustainable materials, biodegradable polymers, bionanocomposites, edible food packaging, and product development.

Dr. Nikhil Kumar Mahnot is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Technology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Doimukh, Arunachal Pradesh, India. He has cumulative research and nine years’ experience in the field of Food Technology. His research interests lie in the field of novel food preservation and processing technologies. Fields of interest include food chemistry, food microbiology, food product development and shelf-life assessment.