silver carp is the major specimen in warm water fish culture system in iran which is presented in various size and different price. the present study was aimed to compare nutritional value and to investigate proportion of nutritional value and financial of various weight groups of silver carp in spring season. for this purpose silver carp was prepared in market sizes and their dry matter, fat, ...

a field study was conducted in nine villages, three each from kupwara, handwara and karnah tehsils of kupwara district, to find out the nutritional value of feeds and fodders, existing feeding practices and nutritional status of dairy cattle. data was collected from the fifteen farm families from each of the nine were randomly selected through a common questionnaire. all the farmers were found ...

background: in order to provide better advice for prevention of obesity and eating disorders among children, there is a need to have more knowledge of their dietary patterns. this study examined meal and snacking patterns of primary school children in tehran. methods: a total of 761 male and female primary school children from all educational areas in tehran were recruited in a cross‑sectional ...

fruity teas are popular due to variety in sensory properties as well as their nutritional and therapeutical characteristics. recently, the worldwide researches related to fruity teas have been considerably developed. in this work, effects of fruit type (apple, quince and pear) and brewing time (10 or 20 min) on some nutritional properties (mg, fe and ca contents, sugars and protein percent) as ...

in current study, protein hydrolysates were produced using microbial proteases of alcalase, protamex and flavourzyme from yellowfin tuna viscera. the results indicated that, protein hydrolysate from alcalase, had significantly higher protein content, nitrogen recovery and degree of hydrolysis than the others (p 0.05). the results of amino acids composition revealed that all hydrolysates were al...

grapes are significant sources of nutritional antioxidants as well as biologically active dietary components. this study was carried out to determine the amount of total phenols, anthocyanins and antioxidant activity of 35 grapevine (vitis vinifera l.) cultivars grown in fars province (iran). ripened bunches were randomly harvested from grapevine collection in zarghan (fars province, iran) agri...

the lowest lipid levels of capoeta erhani observed in winter and vice versa in summer. the fatty acid composition of the fillets was significantly different among seasons ( p <0.05), while the variations among sexes were not at the same degrees ( p >0.05). the ratios of the unsaturated fatty acids (ufas) were higher than half of the total fatty acids among all seasons. the level of pufa was hig...

the fruit of date palm (phoenix dactylifera l.) is an important horticultural product in the middle east and north africa. among more than 400 reported date palm cultivars in iran, around 20 cultivars are more important due to having better eating quality and trading values. in this study, the fruit of nine commercially important date cultivars including ‘barhee’, ‘breim’, ‘deiri’, ‘fersi’, ‘ga...

because of limitations of production of unicellular green algae (especially in large volumes), this study aimed to culture artemia using three sources of cheap agricultural by-products that were coupled with small amounts of unicellular algae dunaliella salina. the results of growth and survival, biomass production, individual wet weight, wet and ash percent, fcr and sgr and nutritional value o...