Adulteration of milk with other additives resembling in physico-chemical properties can be done. Vegetable oils, hydrogenated fats, animal body fats and their blends have been reported as adulterants in milk and milk fat products. The scientists at Gujarat Agriculture University, Anand worked on detection of vegetable oils in milk and milk fat by a rapid method. The elevation of butyrorefractom...

The objective of this study was to survey the fatty acid profiles of fat spreads, margarines, shortenings, vegetable fat ice creams, vegetable fat milk-based cream substitutes, vegetable fat cheese substitutes, and reduced-fat cheeses on the Finnish market. The evaluation of the nutritional quality of fat in these products is of significance to dieticians and to the development of fat products ...

The objective of the present study was to assess to what extent fruit and vegetable intakes track over a 24-year time period and to assess longitudinal associations between fruit and vegetable intakes and (change in) BMI and sum of skinfolds. Dietary intake and anthropometrics were repeatedly assessed for 168 men and women between the ages of 12 and 36 years. Linear general estimating equations...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The present review was undertaken in order to summarize and evaluate recent research investigating taste exposure, sensory learning, and nutrition education interventions for promoting vegetable intake in preschool children. RECENT FINDINGS Overall, taste exposure interventions yielded the best outcomes for increasing vegetable intake in early childhood. Evidence from sensor...

a systematic parasitological examination was carried out on 266 freshwater fish speci-mens, belonging to 11 species, from northwest of iran during the period from summer 2001 to summer 2002. twelve parasite species including diplostomum spathaceum, al-locreadium isoporum, ligula intestinalis, digrama sp., caryophylleus laticeps, rhabdocona hellichi, eustrongylides excisus, argulus foliaceus, la...

BACKGROUND Fruit and vegetable intake in children remains below recommendations in many countries. The long-term effects of early parental feeding practices on fruit and vegetable intake are not clearly established. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the current study was to examine whether early feeding practices influence later fruit and vegetable intake in preschool children. DESIGN The study used...

Huge amounts of evaporation and precipitation exist over the ocean and play an important role in the global climate system. Therefore, evaluation of freshwater flux is critical for understanding the mechanism of global climate change. Recently we can use three kinds of global freshwater flux products such as in situ data, satellite data and reanalysis data. Although various studies were carried...

This study was conducted to determine status of heavy metals in agricultural soils under different patterns of land use. A total of 38, 40 and 45 soil samples for bare vegetable field, greenhouse vegetable field, and grain crop field were respectively taken from surface layer (0-20 cm) from selected experimental areas away from suburbs of ten counties (or districts or cities) in four provinces ...

BACKGROUND Early childhood is critical to the development of lifelong food habits. Given the high proportion of children with inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption, identification of modifiable factors associated with higher consumption may be useful in developing interventions to address this public health issue. This study aimed to identify the characteristics of the home food environmen...