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Volume 1 Issue 6
Metal Contamination in Milk: A Potential Human Health Toxicity
Milk is one of the most important food in daily life providing rich nutrients is produced by lacteal secretion from mammal’s mammary glands. Varieties of milk contains all essential ingredients although differ in odor, taste and chemical composition. It is an exclusive healthy food which cannot replace by any other food required for maintenance of life of both adults as well as for the infants. [..] READ MORE
Effects of Use and Re-use of Selected Vegetable Oils on the Anti-Nutritional and Antioxidant Contents of Raw and Fried Plantain Chips. Note 1
Effects of use and re-use of different edible vegetable oils (refined palm olein, soya, olive) on the anti-nutritional factors and antioxidant activities of the plantain chips were investigated using standard analytical methods. For the selected oil (both use and re-use: first and second re-use and the fresh plantain chips (UPC)) had the following result anti-nutritional factors(mg/100g): Tannic acid (1.6-4.18), Total phenol (1.59-4.56), oxalate (1.98-3.60), phytin phosphorus (mg/g)(2.3-5.80), p [..] READ MORE
Interfaces on the Acceptance of the Pureed Diet in a Public University Hospital
The food for collectivities is one of the areas of the nutritionist’s action and comprise food and nutritional care of occasional or defined public. Evaluating the patient’s satisfaction with tools that provide feedback is necessary to have a positive acquisition of improvement for the quality of services provided. The objective of the study was to understand how evaluation tools can improve the acceptance and satisfaction of the pureed diet consumed by patients of a university hospital in the c [..] READ MORE
Impact of Treated Wastewater Reuse for Irrigation Purposes in Tunisia on Crops Growth, Human Health and Soil
This work analyzed several Tunisian researches about reused water quality and their effects on crops growth and soil properties as well as harmful substances content and human health risks. Five irrigation areas were selected (Nabeul-oued Souhil, Sfax-Elhajeb, Sousse-Zaouit, Borj Touil and Gabés-El Hamma). Results Showed a very higher TWW conductivities (3.5-5.6ms/cm). An important level of toxic compounds were observed; sodium from 4.87meq/L to 32meq/L, Chloride from 15.45 to 49.77meq/L and nit [..] READ MORE
Determination of Arsenic and Cadmium in Sri Lankan Rice Samples by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICPMS) Following Microwave Assisted Acid Digestion
Rice is the most important food for the world population including Sri Lanka. However, the toxic metallic elements in rice grains transferred from environment or as an agriculture input often pose great risk to human health because their toxicity, persistence and bioaccumulation in body. [..] READ MORE
Null Evidence of Ammonium Consumption by Lactobacillus rhamnosus HN001 and Bifidobacterium lactis BI-07, Commercial Probiotic Bacteria, in a Fermentative System
Ammonia is a toxic metabolite capable of causing hepatic encephalopathy in people with liver problems. This is a syndrome characterized by a series of clinical manifestations derived from attention deficit as well as cognitive deterioration, joined with the risk of fulminant hepatitis or liver cirrhosis caused by a significant reduction of hepatic parenchyma. The applications of probiotics and prebiotic in functional food is increasingly important in the prevention of diseases as the hepatic enc [..] READ MORE
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