Nutritive Value of Canned Fruits and Vegetables

Medical Research Council: The Nutritive Value of Fruits, Vegetables and Nuts

' The Medical Research Council have always placed the subject of nutrition in the forefront of their programme, and more especially the study of those problems of health and disease which are related to qualitative differences in the chemical composition of various foods and diets. Great advances have been made in fundamental knowledge in this respect, but full application of the experimental r...

Nutritive and health-promoting value of organic vegetables.

In recent years in Poland we may observe a considerable development of organic vegetable production. Increased interest in organic products results from an opinion of the consumers on their high quality and health safety. However, results of research comparing nutritive value and contents of biologically active compounds in vegetables from organic and conventional farms are ambiguous. Most stud...

The nutritional value of indigenous fruits and vegetables in Sarawak.

The proximate composition including mineral and vitamin contents of 16 fruits and 46 vegetables (leaves, fruits, palm hearts and shoots) of indigenous origin in Sarawak are provided. Fruits like dabai (Canarium odontophyllum), kembayau (Dacryodes rostrata f. cuspidata), durian nyekak (Durio kutejensis) and durian kuning (Durio graveolens) are very nutritious with high values for energy, protein...

Maximizing the Nutritional Value of Fruits and Vegetables

Interest in the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables has been increasing, in part because of recent findings on the high level of obesity and other diet-related health problems in children and in part because of increased federal support of programs funding consumption of fresh and processed fruit and vegetable products. The following discussion is based in part on a review by Rickman et ...

Effect of heterocyclic amines, vegetables, and fruits on colorectal cancer