chapter 1 Kinetic View on Food Quality -- part Section I: The Basics -- chapter 2 Models and Modeling -- chapter 3 Chemical Thermodynamics in a Nutshell -- chapter 4 Chemical Reaction Kinetics -- chapter 5 Temperature and Pressure Effects -- chapter 6 Charge Effects -- chapter 7 Kinetics and Statistics -- part Section II: Application of the Basics to Chemical, Biochemical, Physical, and Microbial Changes in the Food Matrix -- chapter 8 Multiresponse Kinetic Modeling of Chemical Reactions -- chapter 9 Enzyme Kinetics -- chapter 10 Kinetics of Protein and Enzyme Denaturation -- chapter 11 Kinetics of Physical Changes -- chapter 12 Kinetics of Microbial Growth -- chapter 13 Kinetics of Inactivation of Microorganisms -- chapter 14 Modeling the Food Matrix -- chapter 15 Retrospective and Outlook -- chapter Appendix A: Some Calculus Rules -- part Appendix B: Ways to Express Amounts of Reactants and Products -- chapter Appendix C: Interconversion of Activity Coefficients Based on Mole Fractions, Molalities, and Molarities -- chapter Appendix D: Differential and Integrated Rate Equations for Kinetic Models of Complex Reactions -- chapter Appendix E: McMillan-Mayer and Lewis-Randall Framework and Equations for the Mean Spherical Approximation Theory -- chapter Appendix F: Probability Laws and Probability Models -- chapter Appendix G: Use of Matrix Notation in Model Representation and Regression Analysis -- chapter Appendix H: Some Thermodynamic Activity Coefficient Models -- chapter Appendix I: Reliability Engineering and the Weibull Model -- chapter List of Symbols and Units*.