Baby food was formulated from sockeye salmon (puree alone, puree + chunks, puree + pink row, puree + pink row + chunks, puree + red row, puree + red roe + chunks). In the 1st study, physical (pH, instrumental color, water activity) and descriptive sensory (odor, flavor, texture, visual color) characteristics were determined. Samples containing roe were lighter and less red (by approximately 3 t...

An amperometric cytochrome c-based electrode was developed and applied to the quantification of the scavenging capacity of antioxidants. The enzymatic biosensor was constructed by covalently immobilizing both cyt c and XOD on a mercaptoundecanoic acid/mercaptoundecanol mixed SAMmodified screen-printed gold electrode. The concentration which induces a 50% inhibition of the superoxide level (IC50...

We describe a spectrometer consisting of a vector network analyzer, a gas absorption cell, and a quasi-optical bench that acquires terahertz spectra of gaseous substances and mixtures. We tested volatile organic compounds that are medical biomarkers or chemicals which can be found on the US Environment Protection Agency list of harmful substances. Absorption spectra at gas pressures between 10 ...

We investigated the effects of fermented red beet extract and ascorbic acid on color development in meat emulsions. The pH of meat emulsions containing red beet extract decreased with an increase in the amount of extract added. The redness of the treated meat emulsions was higher than that of the control with no added nitrite or fermented red beet extract (p<0.05), though the redness of the mea...

We develop a density functional theory and investigate the interfacial tension of several pure substances N(2), CO(2), H(2)S, normal alkanes from C(1) to nC(10), and binary mixtures C(1)/C(3), C(1)/nC(5), C(1)/nC(7), C(1)/nC(10), CO(2)/nC(4), N(2)/nC(5), N(2)/nC(6), N(2)/nC(8), N(2)/nC(10), nC(6)/nC(7), nC(6)/nC(8), and nC(6)/nC(10). The theory is combined with the semiempirical Peng-Robinson e...

Streptomyces aureofaciens growth in chemically defined medium is actively associated with the secretion of low-molecular-weight nucleic acid-related substances and is linked to low availability of phosphate. Thirteen pure compounds were isolated, of which seven were identified.

Sodium taurocholate is able to produce a decrease in permeability and to antagonize NaCl. This confirms the hypothesis that antagonistic relations can be predicted from studies on the permeability of pure substances.

Many substances of forensic interest are chiral and available either as racemates or pure enantiomers. Application of chiral analysis in biological samples can be useful for the determination of legal or illicit drugs consumption or interpretation of unexpected toxicological effects. Chiral substances can also be found in environmental samples and revealed to be useful for determination of comm...