background and objectives: recently, due to the interest of healthy lifestyle demand for research on novel methods of increasing the shelf-life of food products without the necessity of using preservatives has extended rapidly in the world. ability of nanoemulsions to improve global food quality has attracted great attention in food preservation. this is as a result of a number of attributes pe...

oxyntomodulin (oxm), a proglucagon-derived peptide, is a well known anorexigenic peptide found inthe gut and brain of mammals. the present study was carried out to investigate the central effect of oxm onfood intake in non-fasted and fasted ross broiler chicks. at four weeks of age, a guide cannula wasstereotaxically implanted into the right lateral ventricle of each bird. two experiments were ...

the place of information in addressing market access and participation limitation, which hinders farmer’s welfare and poverty reduction efforts in many developing countries, cannot be over-emphasized. this study therefore examined the use of mobile phone in the marketing of food crops among farming households in rural south east, nigeria. a multi stage sampling procedures was used in the select...

in spite of the technologies developed during the last decade, the level of food loss is still high and is reported in many countries. according to the united nations, more than 30 per cent of the mortality rate world-wide is caused by alimentary diseases. the desire of most countries to make food safer for consumption requires better food preservation and production techniques. in this regard,...

conclusions the results of the present study show a favorable inhibitory effect of artemisias spicigera essential oil on fungal growth, especially aspergillus species. according to the results, antifungal components of artemisias spicigera in different forms are used to prevent fungal pollution. materials and methods two types of media dichloran 18% glycerol (dg18) agar and dichloran rosebengal...

effect of dietary free l-lysine on growth, food intake, and muscle composition of beluga juveniles were investigated over 6 weeks. control diet lysine content was 2.1% of dry matter (4.4% of dietary protein). three experimental diets were prepared by adding lysine (0.5, 1 and 1.5%) to control diet to obtain diets containing 2.6, 3.1 and 3.6% of dry matter lysine (corresponding to 5.5, 6.6 and 7...

background and objectives: this study aimed to develop and validate a food frequency questionnaire (ffq) for measuring calcium intake in 9-13 years old children in tehran, iran. materials and methods: a 56-item ffq containing main contributors of calcium in iranian diet was designed. criterion validity of the calcium specific ffq was evaluated through comparing its result with five 24-h recalls...

background: given the importance of vegetables in the food pyramid, their safety is very important from view point of public health. vegetable contamination by heavy metals can lead to bioaccumulation of these toxic and disease-causing elements in the body of consumers. therefore, in this study, the concentration of some heavy metals, including lead (pb), cadmium (cd), zinc (zn) and copper (cu)...

one of the import indices of food security evaluation is food import capacity index. ratio of total exports to food imports is often thought to be a measure of the capacity of a country to finance its food imports using revenues from exports of goods and services. this study investigates food import capacity effects on rural households food security by calculated ahfci (aggregate household food...

Encapsulation, invented in 1953 by B.K. Green & L. Schleicher employed in the laboratories of the National Cash Register Company, Dayton, USA, is defned as a technology of packaging solids, liquids, or gaseous materials in miniature, sealed capsules that can release their contents at controlled rates under specifc conditions. Encapsulation involves the incorporation of ...