AIMS To determine suitable food textures for videofluoroscopic study of swallowing (VFSS), in order to predict and prevent subsequent aspiration pneumonia in esophageal cancer patients with dysphagia after surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS We evaluated 45 hospitalized esophageal cancer patients who underwent surgery between January 2012 and December 2013. The control group consisted of 43 patien...

One factor that contributes to a successful fruit tree grafting is the establishment of symplasmic contacts in the graft interface to facilitate the transfer of compounds between scion and stock. Using novel experimental and theoretical approaches we investigated whether the localized incompatibility, experienced in some Prunus grafts, could be related to insufficient plasmodesmal coupling at a...

application of edible coating as a way of prolonging the shelf-life of perishable fruits and vegetables is promising. two plum cultivars (stanley and giant) were treated with 1% chitosan and then stored at 0-1oc and relative humidity of 90±5% for 40 days. changes in weight loss, respiration rate, fruit firmness, soluble solid content, titrable acidity, ph, ascorbic acid as well as decay rate we...

The traditional preparation of adowè is laborious, time, water, and fuel consuming this has resulted in a decline its consumption. We investigated the characteristics where powder-based products were used to formulate puree as means reducing cost dish. In absence additional salt, cooking cowpea seeds was characterised by two activation energy domains from swelling kinetics below above 60 °C ± 5...

Background. Baby food products contain the necessary components for life and elements that are unsafe health, particularly radioactive isotopes of strontium-90 cesium-137. Radiation from ingested at such an early age can lead to irreversible damage organs tissues, negatively affecting a person’s later life.
 Materials methods. As object research, we selected specialized ready-to-eat baby c...

Dehydrated fruit puree may be a convenient way to promote the healthy consumption of based foods. Drying carriers, highly used by food industry stabilize dried products, show potential encapsulating capacity biocompounds, that could also limit their bioaccesibility. This study analyzed impact gum Arabic (GA), bamboo fiber (BF), native corn starch, starch substituted with octenylsuccinic groups,...

Carbohydrate consumption during exercise enhances endurance performance. A food-focused approach may offer an alternative, ‘healthier’ given the potential health concerns associated with artificial fructose sources, but food-based carbohydrate sources increase gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. This study compared cycling performance and GI comfort of two different (fruit artificial) ingested exer...

M. PLUM Mathematisches Institut I, Universität Karlsruhe, Kaiserstrasse 12, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany [Received on 10 December 2002; revised on 12 January 2004] It is well known that routine methods of computing the spectrum of a self-adjoint operator often lead to spurious eigenvalues in a gap between two parts of the essential spectrum. We provide a geometrical explanation for a numerical me...