Shea butter is the fat extracted from the nut of Africa Shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa). It is used in cosmetic formulations and as a substitute for Cocoa butter in chocolate industries. It is edible and used cooking fat in Africa. The saponifiable fraction of Shea butter is composed primarily of stearic and oleic acids with lesser amounts of palmitic, linoleic and arachidic acids while the uns...

This paper presents an oligopolistic model of informative advertising, where firms simultaneously choose prices and advertising intensities. For this game there is a dispersed price equilibrium in which the amount of advertising by each firm is socially optimal. The advertising technology considered is more general than in Butters', however his results can be obtained as the number of firms ten...

Lansbury and Caughey state in their Primer on prion proteins [1] “Mice lacking the PrP gene, first produced by Charles Weissmann and colleagues, are viable, but have altered neuronal function and develop neurological abnormalities later in life.” This statement is misleading. The PrP-knockout mice produced in our laboratory [2] do not show neurological abnormalities at any time and we have neve...

Fungus isolate, Aspergillus sp. (RBD01), which was isolated from biocontaminated clarified butter was evaluated for its potential to transesterify used edible and non-edible oils for generation of alkyl esters, when used as biocatalyst as dry biomass. The work aimed at determining the potential of dry biomass of Aspergillus sp. (RBD01) to transesterify used cottonseed oil and non-edible oils vi...

This is a comprehensive review of menace of free radicals and its concept and management in Ayurveda. This article highlights the various exogenous and endogenous factors responsible for the production of free radicals with special reference to the formation of unriped and purified metabolites (ama) during the metabolic activities at different levels of digestion. The purpose of this paper is t...

Background and Objectives: Nutrition affects physical status, brain function, memory and learning. High-fat diets can cause memory impairment. The aim of this study was to investigate effects of cheese and butter on the memory and learning of male rats. Materials and Methods: Totally, 24 Wistar male rats (8-week old) were divided into three equal groups and fed with high-fat chow diets (contro...

pistachio processing is one of the ways to increase the value added of pistachio. production of pistachio butter is for this purpose. pistachio butter is a paste form product that contain mainly milled, roasted pistachio kernel with sugar. the aim of this investigation is to produce pistachio butter using sunflower and sesame pastes. for this purpose, pistachio butter was formulated using sunfl...

Intake of trans fatty acids unfavorably affects blood lipoproteins. As margarines are a major source of trans, claims for the advantages of margarines over butter need to be scrutinized. Here we review dietary trials that directly compared the effects of butter and margarine on blood lipids. We identified 20 studies in which subjects had stable body weights, and margarine and butter were exchan...