Ingredients are the core components that make a dish what it is, besides the preparation process. Using the idea of attribute-based classification, we seek to classify plates of food to the correct cuisine by the country, using the ingredients as attributes for a plate of food. Because of the important role that ingredients have in any plate of food, this method can be generalized to any type o...

As a complex system, the complicated interactions between chemical ingredients, as well as the potential rules of interactive associations among chemical ingredients of traditional Chinese herbal formulae are not yet fully understood by modern science. On the other hand, network analysis is emerging as a powerful approach focusing on processing complex interactive data. By employing network app...

A pharmaceutical grade Japanese traditional medicine, daikenchuto (TU-100), consisting of Japanese pepper, processed ginger, and ginseng, has been widely used for various intestinal disorders in Japan and now under development as a new therapeutic drug in the US. It is suggested that TU-100 ingredients exert pharmacological effects on intestines via two routes, from the luminal side before abso...

Two trials were conducted to determine the effects of irradiation of individual ingredients or the whole diet on growth performance in nursery pigs. The response was similar for both trials with pigs fed diets containing irradiated spray-dried animal plasma or soybean meal having increased (P<0.05) ADG compared with pigs fed the control diet with no irradiated ingredients or the complete diet t...

The residues of metolachlor [2chloro-2'-ethyl-N-(2-methoxy-l-methylethyl)6'-methylacetanilide] applied to a soybean field were determined separately as to water-soluble and water-insoluble ingredients and were found to fluctuate with precipitation. The half life of all metolachlor was calculated as 40 to 60 days in 1990 and 4 to 5 days in 1991. The half life of the water-soluble ingredients, ho...

Calendula officinalis extract, C officinalis flower, C officinalis flower extract, C officinalis flower oil, and C officinalis seed oil are cosmetic ingredients derived from C officinalis. These ingredients may contain minerals, carbohydrates, lipids, phenolic acids, flavonoids, tannins, coumarins, sterols and steroids, monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, triterpenes, tocopherols, quinones, amino aci...

herbal medicines include a range of pharmacologically active compounds: in some cases it is not well understood which ingredients are important for a therapeutic effect. the supporters of herbal medicine believe that isolated ingredients in the majority of cases have weaker clinical effects than whole plant extract, a claim that would obviously require proof in each case. generalizations about ...

Gabb and Blake put forth a database to assess potential exposure risk to 55 asthmaassociated and endocrine-disrupting chemicals in a range of 38,975 consumer products. The foundation of their database is publicly available ingredient information. While the authors acknowledge that products may not disclose all ingredients, they did not acknowledge the potential magnitude of that nondisclosure a...

Quality control of traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) used clinically is becoming a challenge and has limited the development of TCM due to the high variability in concentration levels of active ingredients and markers as well as the lack of well-established criteria. Using Shengmai injection, which is a well-established TCM, as an example, we developed an integrated profiling approach that s...

This study presents the availability of fish feed ingredients and their nutritive value in Lakshmipur region, southern Bangladesh considering the presence of large number of fish farms in those areas. A survey was conducted to collect the ingredients from the local markets and fish farms of the area. A range of commonly used feed ingredients for fish farming was available in the markets that in...