BACKGROUND Government and health organisations worldwide have recently reviewed the evidence on the role of dietary sugars in relation to health outcomes. Hence, it is timely to review current intakes of dietary sugars with respect to this guidance and as a benchmark for future surveillance. METHODS This review collates data from nationally representative dietary surveys across the world and ...

BACKGROUND Sugarcane is a subtropical crop that produces large amounts of biomass annually. It is a key agricultural crop in many countries for the production of sugar and other products. Residual bagasse following sucrose extraction is currently underutilized and it has potential as a carbohydrate source for the production of biofuels. As with all lignocellulosic crops, lignin acts as a barrie...

We investigated the quality characteristics and antioxidant activities of yogurt supplemented with 1%, 2%, and 3% aronia juice and fermented for 24 h at 37°C. The total acidity increased with increasing levels of aronia juice and incubation time. Lightness and yellowness of the yogurt decreased, but redness increased, with increasing aronia juice content and incubation time. The number of lacti...

Defoliation produced by abiotic factors and the subsequent re-growth can reduce sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) sucrose content and final sugar yield. Field experiments were conducted during 2003 and 2004 growing seasons in the farm of Hellenic Sugar Industry SA, Larissa factory, central Greece. Three sugar beet cultivars (Rival, Europa and Corsica) were ordinary irrigated till the beginning of J...

Three diflerent juice extractor settings were used to obtain juice from Hamlin oranges. Cloud in Sofi and Medium extracted juice had nearly identical A, values. The A, of the Hard extracted juice was greater than the others. At 30C A, for both the Sofi and Medium juice increased slightly over time while the Hard juice A, decreased. The cloud in all three raw juices showed a decrease in A , at 4...

abstract pomegranate (punica granatum l.) is an important iranian-native fruit, and many of its varieties are cultivated. this research was conducted to evaluate some of the major physical and chemical properties of six pomegranate cultivars at ripening stage in a completely randomized design with 4 replications. the investigated traits were fruit fresh weight, fruit volume, peel thickness, pee...

Xylanase can be usd for many Industrial applications and juice clarification is one of them. Pseudomonas sp. xylanase was used for fruit juice clarification in free State. Maximum amount of juice clarification was in case of Mausambi juice was observed at 40 ̊C and 52 hours, in case of free enzyme treated juice there is 46.9% increase in clarity and 1.7 fold increase in reducing sugars of the ju...

Objective The sensitivity of pancreatic juice cytology for intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm is insufficient. We evaluated the usefulness of repeated pancreatic juice cytology via an endoscopic naso-pancreatic drainage tube combined with carcinoembryonic antigen level of pancreatic juice for the diagnosis of malignant intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm. Methods Between April 2004 and...

BACKGROUND We studied the antioxidant effects of fresh juice and peel extract of Citrus aurantifolia (Christm). METHODS Low density lipoprotein (LDL) was separated from one hypercholesterolemic human serum by modified Bronzert and Brewer procedure. Oxidation of LDL was measured at 234 nm against 0, 5, 10, 20, 25, 30 and 40 μl of fresh lime juice and 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 μl of peel polyphenolic...

Abstract Abiotic stresses are the most major limitation to crop production, causing yield losses up 50%, and consider challenges for production of crops. Thus, an experiment was conducted determine how sugar beet would respond soil application K-humate rates foliar biostimulants under salt stress. Split-plot design in three replicates used both seasons, where fertigation (control, 12, 24 kg ha ...