Results: AS intake contributed 12% and 13% of total energy intake in younger and older women, respectively. AS consumption was higher in younger women living in brick houses and those who possessed a microwave oven. In older women, it was higher in husbandheaded households. Underweight women with the lowest body mass index had higher sugar consumption than overweight and/or obese women. Women w...

Excess sugar consumption in children has led to the removal of chocolate milk from some schools. Lower-sugar formulations, if accepted, would provide the benefits of milk consumption. In a cross-over trial, milk consumption was measured in 8 schools over 6 weeks in 2 phases: phase 1 provided standard 1% chocolate milk and plain 2% milk choices for the first 3 weeks, and phase 2 provided reduced...

OBJECTIVE To compare the dietary intake of adolescents with type 1 diabetes with that of adolescents without diabetes matched on age, sex, and year in school and to compare the diets of both groups with recommendations. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Participants were 132 adolescents with type 1 diabetes, recruited from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and 131 adolescents without diabetes rang...

sugar beet pulp is one of the sugar industries by-products which can be used for cellulase enzyme production, enzymatic saccharification, and alcohol production due to its high percentage of lingo-cellulosic content. trichoderma spp. is an important fungus that produces a wide range of cellulytic enzymes. in this study, cellulase enzyme was produced by placing sugar beet pulp in trichoderma fer...

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect adding various types polysaccharides (CMC, xanthan gum, pectin, agar) and percentage (0.5% 1%) on characteristics cucumber sorbet with a low proportion sugar. This uses Randomized Block Design (RBD) eight treatments three replications. results show that interaction between significantly affects value brightness (L) yellowness (b+) sorbet. Bas...

Sugar analysis is a common industrial analytical requirement. It is particularly important in the analysis of food products such as milk. Though lactose is the main carbohydrate in milk (1) and was typically the only sugar of concern, recently interest has expanded in analyzing milk products with reduced lactose. The lactose in milk can be reduced by hydrolyzing lactose into two other sugars, g...

Strategies for reducing the sugar content of beverages and foods are viewed as critical to global public health. Observational studies (Bundrick, Thearle, Venti, Krakoff,& Votruba, 2014; Dubois, Farmer, Girard,& Peterson, 2007; Liebman et al., 2003; Schulze et al., 2004; Troiano, Briefel, Carroll, & Bialostosky, 2000), intervention trials (Chen et al., 2009; Tordoff & Alleva, 1990), and systema...