The nutrient and anti nutrient composition of some standardized sweet potato dishes in Kwara state was determined using official methods of analysis. The indigenous sweet potato dishes analysed included pounded sweet potato/yam; sweet potato leaf soup; boiled sweet potato; fried sweet potatoes and sweet potato/ beans pottage. There were significant differences (p < 0.05) for moisture content wh...

BACKGROUND The ubiquitous supply of junk foods in our food environment has been partly blamed for the increased rates in overweight and obesity. However, consumption of these foods has generally been examined individually perhaps obscuring the true extent of their combined consumption and impact on health. An overall measure of children's junk food consumption may prove useful in the developmen...

Global nutrition is in a state of crisis; 842 million people worldwide are undernourished, while simultaneously the number of overweight and obese individuals increased to 2.1 billion in 2013. Furthermore, the widespread of non-communicable disease is one of the biggest societal problems globally. Our highly commercialized food system promotes overconsumption of foods that are harmful for both ...

Trimeresurus gracilis is an endemic alpine pitviper in Taiwan with controversial phylogeny, and its venom proteome remains unknown. In this study, we conducted a proteomic analysis of T. using high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry identified 155 toxin proteoforms that belong to 13 viperid families. By searching the sequences trypsin-digested peptides separated HPLC fra...

Survival and fecundity of Colorado potato beetle adults, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say), that had or had not fed previously on non-transgenic potato before exposure to transgenic potato containing the Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis Cry3A toxin (Bt) was investigated. In the laboratory, < 5% of first-generation adults survived after two weeks when restricted to Bt foliage since eclosi...

BACKGROUND Cross-country differences in dietary behaviours and obesity rates have been previously reported. Consumption of energy-dense snack foods and soft drinks are implicated as contributing to weight gain, however little is known about how the availability of these items within supermarkets varies internationally. This study assessed variations in the display of snack foods and soft drinks...

Sergio Escalante got a shock at lunchtime on the fi rst day of school this year. His school’s food kiosk no longer off ered the usual fare—potato crisps, cookies, sweets, soft drinks, and sandwiches dripping with creamy sauces. “He came home and said there was nothing to eat”, his mother, Miriam González, a nurse, recalled with a chuckle. “They were selling fruit and chicken sandwiches without ...

BACKGROUND In June 2016, the Republic of South Africa introduced legislation for mandatory limits for the upper sodium content permitted in a wide range of processed foods. We assessed the sodium levels of packaged foods in South Africa during the one-year period leading up to the mandatory implementation date of the legislation. METHODS Data on the nutritional composition of packaged foods w...

In this research, a system for diagnosing disease was designed and implemented. This will be used paramedics expert. They need to enter many symptoms. The symptoms are classified into two categories, crisps fuzzy. fuzzy input using slider. It is uncertainty Building system, needs three steps knowledge acquisition, representation then building base, finally inference engine. uses standard class ...

Potato has become one of the primary cash crops in the arid region of the Loess Plateau. However, what and how cereal crops to rotate with potato is better for the farmer’s income and environment is unclear now. 11 potato based rotation systems were simulated in Yulin, using EPIC model based on local information. Results showed 1) Though mean potato yield decreased from 6.84 to 5.38 t/hm, the m...