The variation in nutrient content is important because of the effects it can have in meeting nutritional requirements. It is therefore important to analyse the composition of the genetically modified food and to establish the extent to which the product is equivalent to its non-genetically modified counterpart. Statistically significant differences in composition may warrant closer examination ...

BACKGROUND India is experiencing a nutrition transition with the consumption of processed foods rapidly increasing. Nutrition labels are essential if consumers are to understand the healthiness of these products. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India have recently introduced regulation defining national nutrition labelling requirements and Codex Alimentarius recommends a global stand...

People often value the sensual, celebratory, and health aspects of food, but behind this experience exists many other value-laden agricultural production, distribution, manufacturing, physiological processes that support or undermine a healthy population sustainable future. The complexity such is evident in both every-day food preparation recipes industrial packaging storage, each which depends...

Single nutrients are no solution to the problem of malnutrition. It is essential that food based dietary guidelines (FBDG) are developed and implemented to overcome the diet related diseases and promote health in the population. A multidisciplinary group was constituted to develop FBDGs in India. A manual with scientific details and an abridged version were prepared with 6 goals and 14 dietary ...

i was glancing at the proceedings of the 3rd national meeting of iranian association of medical editors of december 2010, few points took my attention worth mentioning. of the 173 medical science journals of iran only 54 are registered in the scopus database.1   at this gathering all the talks had been focused on the improvement of the quality and impact factors (if) which is the score that the...