One of the most important food problems of India and the Far East in general is the provision of adequate amounts of milk and other dairy products in the diet of the people. The per cuput daily consumption of milk in India has been estimated at 5.4 oz. (Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India, 1950), which is inadequate as compared with the recommended minimum requirement of 1...

Dietary pattern analysis is an epidemiological method designed to consider the complexity of food preferences and diet patterns of populations. Few studies from South Asia have used this methodology to describe population food intake. Our objective was to identify dietary patterns and understand their associations with sociodemographic, anthropometric and life-style factors among low-income Pak...

BACKGROUND During the last decade, the prevalence of foodborne diseases due to contaminated food as well as the outbreaks of diseases due to Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains has increased. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and antibiotic resistance pattern of STEC strains in lettuce samples. Since lettuce is used as a raw vegetable in salads,...

The effect freeze-drying conditions, i.e. particle size, use of infrared radiation, and drying air temperature in Atmospheric Freeze-Drying (AFD) or freezing rate in vacuum Freeze-Drying (VFD) on the total selenium content, total polyphenols content and anti-radical power of broccoli was investigated. Two factorial designs were used, with three factors in two levels each one, for each type of f...

Objectives: Low levels of physical activity and poor dietary habits are common in people with serious mental illness and contribute to the poorer overall health and early mortality observed in this population. This paper examines the relationships between health behaviour knowledge and self-reported health behaviours in people with serious mental illness. Methods: We examined the health behavio...

A rapid and reliable analytical method was developed to detect and confirm the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in raw and partially processed foods. Forty-nine food samples (25 mixed cut vegetable salad, 12 smoked salmon, and 12 sterile smoked salmon) were individually inoculated with high levels [10-100 colony forming units (cfu)/25 g sample] and low levels (1-10 cfu/25 g sample) of L. mono...

Local traditional fermented foods consisting of seven samples of tempoyak (made from fresh durian fruit), six samples of budu (made from boiled fish), four samples of tempeh (made from boiled soybean), two samples of vegetable pickle (made from raw cabbage) and one sample of tapai (made from cooked glutinous rice), were used as samples for the isolation of lactic acid bacteria (LAB). A number o...

A rapid and non-destructive methodology is proposed for the screening of edible vegetable oils according to conservation state expiration date employing near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and chemometric tools. A total of fifty samples of soybean vegetable oil, of different brands andlots, were used in this study; these included thirty expired and twenty non-expired samples. The oil oxidation was...

Watering of vegetables in developing countries including Ethiopia is done using untreated wastewater and raw manure of domestic animal origin is used as fertilizer. Thus, vegetables are considered to be the principal sources of human infection with bacterial, protozoan and helminth parasites. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the rate of parasitological contamination of pre...