The purpose of this study was to examine consumers' behaviors toward ready-to-eat foods and to develop ready-to-eat food market segmentation in Korea. The food-related lifestyle and purchase behaviors of ready-to-eat foods were evaluated using 410 ready-to-eat food consumers in the Republic of Korea. Four factors were extracted by exploratory factor analysis (health-orientation, taste-orientati...

OBJECTIVE We examined whether trajectories of dietary patterns from 6 to 24 months of age are associated with intelligence quotient (IQ) in childhood and adolescence. METHODS Participants were children enrolled in a prospective UK birth cohort (n = 7,652) who had IQ measured at age 8 and/or 15 years. Dietary patterns were previously extracted from questionnaires when children were aged 6, 15 ...

Fruit and vegetables wastes not only have no commercial value, but also require expensive operations of removal and disposal, representing a significant cost for the manufacturers of plant products. However, this material may represent an important resource of commercially worth phyto-molecules endowed with various nutraceutical properties. In the present work, we have verified the possibility ...

Acinetobacter spp. are common pathogenic bacteria. The genus includes 65 species, of which the calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii complex group has been identified as cause more than 80% hospital infections in immunocompromised patients. Existing phenotypic techniques not sufficient to accurately identify and distinguish clinically important 288 (60%, n = 480) ready-to-eat vegetable meat sam...

Smooth golden fleece (Urospermum dalechampii (L.) F.W. Schmidt) and prickly picroides Scop. ex Schmid) are two wild edible plants used in traditional cuisine folk medicine. In this research, the domestication of both species was tested for first time using a floating system plant densities (412 824 m?2) to evaluate yield quality. Some quality traits were also compared cultivated ones gathered g...