The increasing prevalence of childhood obesity is a serious public health problem associated with co-morbidities in adulthood, as well as childhood. This study was conducted to identify associations between total sugar intake and sugar intake from different foods (fruit, milk, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs)), and adiposity and continuous metabolic syndrome scores (cMetS) among Korean chil...

BACKGROUND Lignocellulosic biomass has the potential to be a major source of renewable sugar for biofuel production. Before enzymatic hydrolysis, biomass must first undergo a pretreatment step in order to be more susceptible to saccharification and generate high yields of fermentable sugars. Lignin, a complex, interlinked, phenolic polymer, associates with secondary cell wall polysaccharides, r...

The sugar-binding specificities of C-type lectins isolated from marine invertebrates were investigated by frontal affinity chromatography (FAC) using 100 oligosaccharides. The lectins included BRA-2 and BRA-3, multiple lectins from the hemolymph of the acorn barnacle, Megabalanus rosa, and BRL from the acorn barnacle, Balanus rostatus. The diverse sugar-binding specificities of the C-type lecti...

Abstract Oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB), waste produced from the oil mills, has not been intensely utilized while its abundant availability in tropical countries such as Indonesia. It is one of potential lignocellulosic material sources which can be to produce sugar. The subcritical water process known a promising lignocellulose-to-sugar conversion process. This study examined effects tempe...

The nonenzymatic reaction between amino groups of proteins, lipids and nucleic acids with carbonyl group of reducing sugars is called glycation. Glycation primarily occurs at intrachain lysine residues of proteins and involves the condensation reaction of the carbonyl group of reducing sugar aldehydes with the amino groups of lysine residues. Several other carbonyl compounds bearing a reducing ...

During the study of the acid hydrolysate of a polysaccharide from BtiZZus subtilis (3), the hexosamine fraction (4) was found to give an unidentified spot on paper chromatograms. Its color reactions were typical for an amino sugar, but it moved at a faster rate than glucosamine or galactosamine. Furthermore, degradat,ion with ninhydrin (5) afforded a reducing product possessing a RF higher than...

Black radish juice obtained from the whole root is rich in sulphur heterosides, cyanogenic glycosides, vitamins, phenolic substances which were proved to be excellent antioxidants (free radicals scavengers). Brown sugar contains, beside sucrose, organic acids, amines, pectins, reducing saccharides, aminoacids (proteins), vitamins of B complex, ions of potassium, calcium, sodium, magnesium, as w...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to find out the level of knowledge on sugar-related nutrition among mothers with preschool children. SUBJECTS/METHODS The study conducted a survey on 350 mothers whose children attended daycare. The dietary lives of the children and the nutritional knowledge of the mothers on sugar were checked. In order to analyze results, SPSS 18.0 was use...

Customer attitudes and behaviours have moved towards health foods because they have more concerns on increasing environmental stresses such as pollution and toxic substances in the environment. Environmental pollutants and lifestyle factors induce oxidative stress leading to many long term health complications in human such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. WHO recommends a reduct...