Gnana Moorthy Eswaran U, is a Research Scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He completed his post-graduate degree in Food Science and Technology from NIFTEM, Thanjavur, India. His research interests include food processing and preservation, food microbiology, extraction of functional compounds, non-thermal technologies, designing alternative food structures, waste valorization, and food packaging. He has published research papers, review papers, book chapters, microbial strains (NCBI), and popular articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Prem Prakash Srivastav, Professor of Food Science and Technology in Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His research interests include the development of specially designed convenience, functional and therapeutic foods, extraction of nutraceuticals,