AIM To evaluate the prevalence of parent-reported food allergies requiring avoidance diet at early school age. METHODS The school health nurses interviewed, by using a structured questionnaire on the required diet at school, the parents of all the 1542 children starting elementary school in a Finnish town with 210,000 inhabitants. RESULTS An allergy to basic foods was found in 41 (2.7%) chi...

Refrigerated and frozen storage Concentrating Dehydrating Pickling and fermenting Sugar preservation Miscellaneous Recovery of constituents Disposal of residues and effluents Analytical and composition Nutrition Still another basis for classification might be according to the type of food as: Fruits Vegetables Grains Nuts Spices Meat Fish Dairy products Poultry products Condiments Confections B...

Background: Suboptimal diet is one of the most important factors in preventing early death and disability worldwide. Objective: The aim of this meta-analysis was to synthesize the knowledge about the relation between intake of 12 major food groups, including whole grains, refined grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, eggs, dairy, fish, red meat, processed meat, and sugar-sweetened beverage...

Background: Suboptimal diet is one of the most important factors in preventing early death and disability worldwide.Objective: The aim of this meta-analysis was to synthesize the knowledge about the relation between intake of 12 major food groups, including whole grains, refined grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, eggs, dairy, fish, red meat, processed meat, and sugar-sweetened beverages...

Background: The Paleolithic diet with fruits, vegetables, roots, leaves, seeds, honey, meat, fish and eggs provided low w-6/w-3 ratio of fatty acids, high monounsaturated fatty acids, fiber, phytochemical antioxidants and proteins. Recent studies indicate that diets similar to Paleolithic diet have anti-inflammatory potential, whereas Western diet, with refined carbohydrates, high w-6/w-3 ratio...

hook-tools (Hunt 1996). In many cases only a single instance of the putative intelligent behavior has been observed (e.g. Montevecchi 1978, Andersson 1989). One behavior, the use of automobiles to crack open nuts, has been cited repeatedly as an example of corvid resourcefulness and adaptability (e.g. Beck 1980:127, Hunt 1996). There are only two original reports of this behavior in the literat...

The presence of hidden nut and tree nut allergens in foods can result in serious health issues, necessitating a method capable of detecting and quantifying them at trace levels using a single robust assay. To find specific peptide markers that can be used to determine the presence or absence of specific nuts in food, proteins unique to 11 tree nuts (almond, pecan, cashew, walnut, hazelnut, pine...