BACKGROUND Breath odor is scored by different techniques, each with its own shortcomings. Organoleptic ratings are uncomfortable for the patient, subjective, influenced by external parameters including food and cosmetics, and especially lack international calibration. Portable sulphide monitors are relatively expensive and neglect several major malodorous molecules (e.g., butyric and propionic ...

Food science and technology plays a very important role in designing developing new foods, improving the safety, nutritional organoleptic quality of processed foods [...]

Studies were conducted to develop an appropriate household/small scale enterprise level technique for the production of bambara-nut-fortified fermented maize dough or meal by comparing different treatments, processing methods and fortification levels. The effect of fortification of maize based traditional foods with legume protein, bambara-nut at 0%. 10% and 20% replacement levels, on the rate ...

Zanthoxylum nitidum (Roxb.) DC (Rutaceae), is a large shrub, and its root is used traditionally in North-East India for toothache, stomachache, fever, rheumatism, paresis, boils and as an insecticide and pesticide. Present study has been undertaken to determine the necessary pharmacognostical standards for evaluating the crude plant material. Various investigations like organoleptic or morpholo...

Sandalwoods encompass 19 species restricted to southeast Asia and the Pacific. The species Santalum austrocaledonicum Vieill. (Santalaceae) is endemic to New Caledonia (Grande-Terre, Isle of Pines, Loyalty Islands) and Vanuatu, where several varieties are recognized. The Loyalty Islands sandalwood variety is here reinstated as Santalum austrocaledonicum var. glabrum Hürl. emend. Butaud & P.Firm...

Milk conservation and its organoleptic quality are greatly affected by different microbial contaminants (Table 1). These microorganisms are present either directly on the animal, in the farm environment or on the milking equipment. Industry requirements and country regulations require that the number of bacteria in raw milk be under a specific amount, often of 100 000 bacterial cells ml-1. Rece...

In the past, milk whey was only a by-product of cheese production, but currently, it has a high commercial value for use in the food industries. However, the regulation of whey management (i.e., storage and hygienic properties) has not been updated, and as a consequence, its microbiological quality is very challenging for food safety. The Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technique was applied t...

The long-term objective of tomato breeders is to identify metabolites that contribute to defining the target flavour and to design strategies to enhance it. This paper reports the results of network analysis, based on metabolic phenotypic and sensory data, to highlight important relationships among such traits. This tool allowed a reduction in data set complexity, building a network consisting ...

Copper and nickel hydrogenations give a wide distribution of double bonds in the monoene fraction from both reduced soybean and linseed oils. With copper catalysts, high pressure hydrogenation reduces the extent of this double bond distribution when compared with low pressure hydrogenation. With nickel catalysts, some t.17-octadecenoate is formed but less than with a copper catalyst. In room od...

A L T H O U G H Moule et al. (1963) have very adequately summarized data on reproductive disturbances and problems resulting from cattle and sheep grazing estrogenic pastures, relatively little research has been reported on the effects of the native estrogen, coumestrol (Bickoff et al., 1958), on the growth response and carcass quality of ruminant animals (Johnston and Anglemier, 1963; Oldfield...