The incorporation of natural antioxidants into fi lms and edible coatings can modify their structure, improving their functionality and applicability in foods, such as in fresh-cut fruits. This paper reviews the more recent literature on the incorporation of antioxidants from several sources into fi lms and edible coatings, for application in fruits and vegetables. The use of synthetic antioxid...

Plant-derived essential oils (EOs) and oil compounds usually have a relatively high vapor pressure and are capable of reaching microbial pathogens through the liquid and the gas phase. Bioactivity of EOs in the vapor phase makes them useful as possible fumigants for stored commodity protection. The use of edible films as carriers of natural antimicrobials constitutes an approach for external pr...

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS I950 supply are not likely to be restored to us. If the food subsidies are greatly reduced, and dairy produce and other foods are sold at something more nearly approaching the Cost of production, I doubt whether the consumption of butter will ever return to its prewar level, but the demand for butter will certainly continue to be greater than the present available supply....

Wheat is a staple article of food throughout the civilized world. It is undoubtedly the best of all cereals, and perhaps contains, much more approximately than any other single edible substance, the elements of adult food",in their proper proportions. It wants but a little oleaginous principle to make it subservient to all purposes of nutrition, and, by an unanimous consent of natural instinct,...

The fatty acid composition of 10 different seeds from Nigeria was determined. The data showed that most seeds (except for Brachystegia eurycoma and Dacryodes edulis) could be placed into one major group; they all contained more unsaturated fatty acids ranging from 55.58 to 79.93% for Tamarindus indica and Monodora myristica, respectively. Two unsaturated fatty acids, namely oleic (21.97-60.68%)...

In this work, we introduce an NMR-based screening method for the fatty acid composition analysis of edible oils. We describe the evaluation and optimization needed for the automated analysis of vegetable oils by low-field NMR to obtain the fatty acid composition (FAC). To achieve this, two scripts, which automatically analyze and interpret the spectral data, were developed. The objective of thi...