Caffeinated and Cocoa Based Beverages

Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu is a lecturer in the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, at the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. He is an experienced researcher and published editor in the field of nano and biostructures. He is the editor-in-chief of two international open access journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience. Dr. Grumezescu has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, authored nine books, and has served as an editor for more than 50 scholarly books. Alina-Maria Holban is a lecturer in Microbiology and Immunology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; and associate researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Her primary area of research is the development of bionanomaterials with antimicrobial applications. Dr. Holban has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 42 conference/symposia proceedings, and has edited more than 21 edited books.

• 1. Functional and Medicinal Properties of Caffeine-Based Common Beverages2. Quality and Safety Issues Related With the Presence of Biogenic Amines in Coffee, Tea, and Cocoa-Based Beverages3. Exploiting Genetic and Phenotypic Diversity of Robusta Coffee (Coffea canephora L.) Landraces to Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change4. Industrial Processing of CTC Black Tea5. Caffeinated Beverages, Behavior, and Brain Structure6. The Ability of Green Tea With Lowered Caffeine to Reduce Stress and Improve Sleep7. Caffeine and Kidney Diseases8. Caffeine in Beverages: Cardiovascular Effects9. Analytical Approaches in Coffee Quality Control10. Spray-Freeze-Drying of Coffee11. Nutrients in Caffeinated Beverages - An Overview12. Effects of Coffee on Intestinal Microbiota, Immunity, and Disease13. The Microbiology of Cocoa Fermentation14. Genetic Engineering in Coffee15. Cocoa Industry - From Plant Cultivation to Cocoa Drinks Production