Potatoes, members of the Solanaceae plant family, serve as major, inexpensive low-fat food sources providing energy (starch), high-quality protein, fiber, and vitamins. Potatoes also produce biologically active secondary metabolites, which may have both adverse and beneficial effects in the diet. These include glycoalkaloids, calystegine alkaloids, protease inhibitors, lectins, phenolic compoun...

BACKGROUND Indispensible amino acids (IAAs) are used by the body in different proportions. Most animal-based foods provide these IAAs in roughly the needed proportions, but many plant-based foods provide different proportions of IAAs. To explore how these plant-based foods can be better used in human nutrition, we have created the computational tool vProtein to identify optimal food complements...

Winter rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) has potential to become an alternate oilseed crop both for edible oil production and energy agriculture (biofuel production) for Turkey. This study was conducted to determine the effect of year, N sources and doses on the yield and quality traits of winter rapeseed in a cereal system in calcareous soils over two seasons, 2000-2001 and 2001-2002, in Central An...

BACKGROUND Short-term clinical trials suggest that dietary protein lowers blood pressure (BP); however, long-term effects of total, animal, and plant proteins are less clear. Our goal was to evaluate effects of these dietary proteins on mean systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) and incident high BP (HBP) risk among middle-aged adults in the Framingham Offspring Study. METHODS Men and wome...

abstract these days, scientsts search for cheap protein sources because of growthing of population.one of these sources is single cell protein.this study deals with single cell protein production process by saccharomyces cerevisiae and saccharomyces carlsbergensis .these yeast are known as the most ideal and practical eukaryotic microorganism in biological studies. in this survey we added the w...

It is generally accepted that the growth of skeletal muscles and retention muscle mass throughout life depends mainly on amount protein animal origin consumed with food. The difference between effect plant proteins has recently been studied by many authors, however, when considering this topic, researchers often make gross, in our opinion, mistakes it difficult to further study topic.
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Moringa oleifera Lam (Moringaceae) can be defined as one of the plants which great medicinal and nutritional value. This plant is considered to native India, also it has been currently majorly distributed in sub-tropical tropical world regions. The various parts are protein sources, minerals, vitamin, presenting biotechnological pharmacological possibilities. With this regard, presented work ga...

Neanderthals have been commonly depicted as top predators who met their nutritional needs by focusing entirely on meat. This information mostly derives from faunal assemblage analyses and stable isotope studies: methods that tend to underestimate plant consumption and overestimate the intake of animal proteins. Several studies in fact demonstrate that there is a physiological limit to the amoun...

BackgroundEvidence is limited regarding the association between low-carbohydrate diet (LCD) score and mortality among Asians, a population that consumes large amount of carbohydrates.ObjectiveThe present study examined (based on percentage energy as carbohydrate, fat, protein) risk total cause-specific Asians.DesignThis was prospective cohort in Japan with follow-up for median 16.9 years involv...

Synchronization of rumen available protein and energy is one of the conceptual methods to increase the efficiency of utilization of nutrients by the ruminants The concept of synchronization energy and protein was first by Jhonson, Implying that maximum microbial protein synthesis could be achieved by matching the rate of Organic Matter and protein degradation. Synchronization of rumen available...