This study reports the discrepancy between two methods to assess fruit and vegetable consumption in a Dutch adult population (N = 367).The consumption of fruit and vegetables was assessed by telephone interviews in two ways: it was estimated objectively by using a food frequency method (the number of grams of fruit and vegetables that subjects ate every day), and it was estimated subjectively b...

Abstract Listeria monocytogenes is an important opportunistic foodborne pathogen causing listeriosis, often fatal infection leading to meningitis, sepsis, or of the fetus and abortion in susceptible individuals. Diverse ready-to-eat food (RTE) like dairy, meat, fish, vegetables, complex foods are linked with listeriosis outbreaks. L. capable surviving stressful environmental conditions grow ref...

introduction: foodborne pathogens are a major public health problem. despite the increase in management and consumer interest in food safety, the number of food poisoning cases has been continuously increased in recent years. for example in 2010, human salmonellosis cases were reported in europe and in 2011, a multistate foodborne e.coli o157:h7 outbreak affected 8 people and also a larger mult...

The sampling activity for this study was performed between September and October 2012. It involved seven shops in Verona, eleven in Vicenza and two in its province (Bassano del Grappa), northern Italy. The scope was to measure the values of energy and nutritional components and to identify the profile of fatty acids in a serving of ready to eat Döner Kebab. The samples were collected according ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between breakfast type, energy intake and body mass index (BMI). We hypothesized not only that breakfast consumption itself is associated with BMI, but that the type of food eaten at breakfast also affects BMI. METHODS Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), a large, population...

Inflammatory mediators produced during inflammatory response play an important role on pathological development of several chronic diseases. Although several dietary plants exhibited anti-inflammatory property, their impacts as a whole food has been rarely reported. The aim of the present study is to assess anti-inflammatory activity of an ethanol extract from a whole food namely “ready to eat ...

Background and Objectives: Macrobrachium nipponense are wetland crustaceans. The shrimp is rich in protein and unsaturated fatty acids (FAs). Therefore, the aim of this study was to use M. nipponense as a supplement for the preparation of a new soup. Materials and Methods: Nearly 40 kg of M. nipponense were harvested from Anzali Lagoon, Northern Iran. Shrimps were washed and dipped in NaCl sol...