1. The time-course of urinary excretion of [15N]urea and [lSN]argininosuccinate or [''Nlarginine after an oral dose of [15N]ammonium lactate has been followed in patients with argininosuccinic aciduria and cystine-lysinuria respectively. The labelled argininosuccinate and arginine appeared more slowly than expected on simple precursor-product models. 2. In the patient with argininosuccinic acid...

OBJECTIVE The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposes to establish standardized and mandatory criteria upon which front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labelling must be based. The present study aimed to estimate the relative contribution of declared amounts of different nutrients to the perception of the overall 'healthfulness' of foods by the consumer. DESIGN Protein, fibre, vitamin A, vitam...

Providing new production alternatives in the development of economy rural areas Turkey is particular importance. Geographical indication (GI) labelling differentiates a product from its competitors as to region where it originated. The improvement GI strengthens efforts regions maintaining high standards quality regarding health. This paper investigates way implemented by pestil (dried fruit pu...

Product reviews are the foremost source of information for customers and manufacturers to help them make appropriate purchasing and production decisions. Natural language data is typically very sparse; the most common words are those that do not carry a lot of semantic content, and occurrences of any particular content-bearing word are rare, while co-occurrences of these words are rarer. Mining...

Some nutrient data for beef sausages in Australia's food composition table, NUTTAB 2010, is over 25 years old and may no longer reflect the composition of this popular food. To update this, 41 retail samples of fresh beef sausages were purchased in Melbourne, Australia, in May 2015. Each purchase was analysed, uncooked, for moisture, protein and fat. Sausages were then grouped by fat content in...

INTRODUCTION The United Nations has proposed the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals to make hazard communication more uniform and to improve comprehension. METHOD Two experiments were conducted to test whether the addition of hazard and precautionary pictograms to safety data sheets and product labels would improve the transfer of information to user...

Cocoa beans are rich source of polyphenols, contributing about 10% of the dry weight of the whole bean and its derivative chocolate, particularly dark chocolate, is considered one of the major contributors of antioxidants to the American diet after fruits and vegetables. At present the wide variation in cocoa processing and in the content and profile of polyphenols make it difficult to determin...