Three "saturated" fats of vegetable origin were fed to different groups of rabbits for periods up to 1 year. Cocoa butter and a hydrogenated vegetable oil shortening produced no hypercholesterolemia. Coconut oil feeding increased the serum cholesterol concentrations for 4 months, but a decline to baseline values occurred after 6 months. No gross atherosclerosis occurred in any animal fed coconu...

The butter boletes (Boletus s.l. sect. Appendiculati) are an economically important group of ectomycorrhizal fungi whose basidiocarps have a yellow tube layer that often bruises blue, yellow reticulate stipe, mild flavor and firm yellow-tinged flesh that may or may not turn blue when exposed. Morphological characters and molecular data (ITS and LSU) place this group in a separate phylogenetic c...

Solid and liquid ba~ts were tested for the delivery the latter may be more useful because consumption can be of drugs to white-tailed deer. The solid bait was comprised measured directly, ingestion by nontarget animals is of a mineral block paired with apple, peanut butter, or acorn minimized, and bait degradation by weathering is reduced. extract. The liquid bait was comprised of water, apple ...

The lipid composition of human chylomicrons has been studied using blood collected from normal male volunteers after ingestion of 200 g of butter fat. The concentration of chylomicrons in the blood samples varied widely among 12 subjects but in each case the following lipids were present : triglycerides, diglycerides (probably the 1,2-isomers), monoglycerides, free and esterified cholesterol, t...

Triacylglycerol (TAG) molecular species were quantified through high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipped with a nano quantity analyte detector (NQAD). TAG standard compounds, i.e., 1,3-dipalmitoyl-2-oleoylglycerol (β-POP), 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-3-stearoyl-rac-glycerol (β-POS), and 1,3-distearoyl-2-oleoylglycerol (β-SOS), and natural cocoa butter were used for analyses. NQAD gave th...

Cocoa beans are rich in a number of beneficial bioactive compounds that are good for health. However, they have not been exploited to their fullest to produce high quality extract containing stable bioactive compound. The main objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the different solvent used for extraction on yield of cocoa butter extracts, oxidative value, phytosterols c...