In southern New Jersey a new agricultural pest problem has seriously impacted production of green beans for plant processing. Newly acquired harvesters inadvertently capture frogs, which are difficult and expensive to remove from harvested beans. Goals of this project were to (1) define the biological properties of the pest problem, and (2) identify biologically sound and effective methods to m...

THE EFFECTS OF COOKED COMMON BEANS ON DSS-INDUCED COLITIS IN MICE Penglihui Claire Zhang Advisor: University of Guelph, 2012 Dr. Kelly Meckling This thesis is an investigation of the effects of whole beans, with different levels of phenolics level, on colonic inflammation in mice. C57BL/6 male mice were fed a basal diet (BD) supplemented with or without 20% bean flour for 3 weeks. Colitis was i...

Global climate change, causing large parts of the world to become drier with longer drought periods, severely affects production common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). The bean is worldwide most produced and consumed food grain legume in human diet. In beans, adapted moderate climates, exposure drought/heat stress not only results significant reduction yield but also nutritional value. This revi...

Drying is a common process step for agricultural grain products ease of handling and to achieve the desired quality levels. One commodities that have high economic value produced by farmers in Lampung Province cocoa beans. The drying may change physical properties beans affect processing at later stage. This study aims determine effect temperature on changes such as dimension, volume, weight, s...

a procedure for the in vitro evaluation of the toxicity of fava beans has been applied to 17 varieties of the bean and one batch of beans purchased on the open market; the latter consisted of unknown varieties. the procedure involves the incubation of a saline extract of the beans with red cells from normal individuals and with red cells from g6pd deficient patients. 2. normal red cells under t...

In vitro antioxidant activities and neuronal cell protective effects of ethanol extract from roasted coffee beans were investigated. Colombia arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) green beans were roasted to give medium (230°C, 10 min), city (230°C, 12 min) and french (230°C, 15 min) coffee beans. Total phenolics in raw green beans, medium, city and french-roasted beans were 8.81±0.05, 9.77±0.03, 9.9...

The beans function BG(x) of a connected graph G is defined as the maximum number of points on G such that any pair of points have distance at least x > 0. We shall exhibit lower and upper bounds of BG(x) for x < 1 and a class of graphs which have the same number of edges and whose beans functions distinguish them. Also, we give some non-isomorphic graphs which have the same beans function.

People in the rural areas of Mexico consume corn tortillas and beans as basic components of their diet. However, little is known about the nutritionally relevant features of starch present in such combined meals. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the in vitro bioavailability of starch in tortilla-bean mixtures stored at 4 degrees C for different times, as compared to that of co...