Computer vision has been introduced to estimate calories from food images. But current food image datasets dont contain volume and mass records of foods, which leads to an incomplete calorie estimation. In this paper, we present a novel food image dataset with volume and mass records of foods, and a deep learning method for food detection, to make a complete calorie estimation. Our dataset incl...

Bacteriocins are ribosomally synthesized peptides or proteins with antimicrobial activity, produced by different groups of bacteria. Many lactic acid bacteria (LAB) produce bacteriocins with rather broad spectra of inhibition. Though these bacteriocins are produced by LAB found in numerous fermented and non-fermented foods, nisin is currently the only bacteriocin widely used as a food preservat...

The principal role of diet is to supply adequate nutrients providing energy to sustain physiologic functions and well-being. Every foods and feeds are functional and consumption of bioactive molecules is facilitated by diet. All probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics are functional components able to exercise significant influences on human and animal wellbeing. Emphasizing these positive activi...

New eating habits, actual trends in production and consumption have a health, environmental and social impact. The European Union is fighting diseases characteristic of a modern age, such as obesity, osteoporosis, cancer, diabetes, allergies and dental problems. Developed countries are also faced with problems relating to aging populations, high energy foods, and unbalanced diets. The potential...

In this paper, the novel surface molecularly imprinted polymers based on dendritic-grafting magnetic nanoparticles were developed to enrich and separate glibenclamide in health foods. The density functional theory method was used to give theoretical directions to the synthesis of molecularly imprinted polymers. The polymers were prepared by using magnetic nanoparticles as supporting materials, ...

The timing of food intake has been investigated as a novel factor in the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of obesity. Indeed, consuming a large proportion of food later in the day and into the night has been associated with higher body weight and may even impair weight loss. The diet quality of late-eaters may be a factor involved in these relationships. Moreover, the nutritional characteri...

There is a need for simple, accurate, and rapid analysis of ethanol (Eth) and acetaldehyde (AA) in a wide variety of beverages and foods. A novel enzymatic assay coupled to formation of fluorescent chromophore is presented. Eth detection was further improved by adding semicarbazide to the reaction mixture, which interacts with AA and prevents its inhibitory effect on Eth oxidation. The limits o...

Pure allergen batches are required for precise personalised diagnosis of food allergies. Furthermore, they can be used to develop sensitive allergen detection assays in foods and are valuable tools to develop novel immunetherapies. However, these reagents have to be well characterised and have to meet certain quality criteria. Within the EU-Project EuroPrevall, the concept of an allergen librar...

Political responses to novel foods and crops can be specific to the new traits of those crops (agronomic versus enhanced nutrients), to the intended uses of those crops (food for people versus feed for animals), and also to the methods used to introduced those traits (conventional breeding versus genetic engineering). This article describes variations in observed political responses to three di...

Monkeys were trained in a Skinner box to press a key for standard food pellets on a fixed-ratio 10 schedule for 30 min. When stable responding had been achieved, two novel foods (almond nuts and marshmallows) were introduced. In the conditioning sessions on the odd-number days, pressing a key delivered one of the two novel foods as the to-be-conditioned target food, and each monkey was injected...