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Food and Nutrition Sciences (FNS) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in related areas. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of food and nut…
Olumuyiwa S. Falade, Israel Otemuyiwa, Oluwemimo Oluwasola, Wale Oladipo, Steve A. Adewusi
About 7.3 million children are estimated to be out of school in Nigeria; majority of them are girls. The Federal Gov-ernment school feeding programme is to provide one meal per school day to all primary school pupils in Nigeria with the objectives of improvin…
Kamalpreet Kaur, Uma Shanker Shivhare, Santanu Basu, G. S. Vijaya Raghavan
β -carotene acts as an antioxidant and is receiving growing interest due to its ability as protecting agent against heart diseases, cancer and strengthening effect on red blood cells. The main aim of this work was to study the kinetics of the supercritical fl…
Nacer Bellaloui
Previous research showed that foliar boron (B) application at flowering or seed-fill growth stages altered seed protein, oil, and fatty acids. The objective of this research was to investigate the effects of foliar B fertilizer on seed phenolics (phenol, lign…
Jill M. Maples, Eugene C. Fitzhugh, Carol A. Costello, Naima Moustaid-Moussa, David R. Basset, Marsha L. Spence, Betty P. Greer
Certain dietary, physical activity, and sedentary behaviors have been studied extensively and consistently have been found to be associated with childhood overweight and obesity Productive sedentary-to-light activity pursuits may enhance the relationship amon…
Leena Hilakivi-Clarke, Sonia de Assis, Jani Raitanen, Riitta Luoto
Objective: We investigated whether lifestyle intervention during pregnancy modifies pregnancy leptin and adiponectin levels, adipokines and their association with body mass index (BMI). Methods: Of the 126 pregnant nulliparous women recruited, 43 in the inter…
Youkou Konno, Toshifumi Ashida, Yuhei Inaba, Takahiro Ito, Hiroki Tanabe, Atsuo Maemoto, Tokiyoshi Ayabe, Yusuke Mizukami, Mikihiro Fujiya, Yutaka Kohgo
Anti-microbial peptides are essential for the intestinal innate immunity that protects the intestinal epithelia from attacks by foreign pathogens. Human β -defensin (HBD) is one of the pivotal anti-microbial peptides that are expressed in the colonic epitheli…
Joop J. P. W. van den Bergh, Sakineh Shab Bidar, Sandrine Bours, Tineke A. C. M. van Geel, Piet P. M. M. Geusens
Adequate calcium and vitamin D intake is advocated in guidelines of osteoporosis. However, the dosage needed to achieve an optimal calcium intake and vitamin D status is still a point of debate. Of 902 consecutive patients older than 50 years presenting at th…
Shiowshuh Sheen, Cheng-An Hwang, Vijay K. Juneja
Foodborne pathogens continue to pose a potential food safety hazard in ready-to-eat (RTE) meat. Chlorine is commonly used to sanitize processing equipment where Escherichia coli O157:H7 (Ec) may survive and contaminate food products. The objective of this stu…
Gbemiga Oladimeji Adeyemo, Sulaiman Adewole Abioye, Foluke A. Aderemi
Four diets were formulated to study the influence of varying crude protein levels on the performance, egg quality, serum and haematological characteristics at the first phase of laying cycle of sixty Bovan Nera laying birds that were randomly allotted to diet…
Ahmad Rohi Ghazali, Yvonne Sipain, Nor Fadilah Rajab, Siew Ee Ling, Norain Ramli, Rozaini Abdullah, Zaliha Harun, Firdaus Kamarulzaman
This study was conducted to observe the genotoxic effects of aqueous, methanol, hexane and dichloromethane extracts of “belacan” (shrimp paste) taken from three local districts in Melaka, Malaysia (Kelemak, Batang Tiga & Pantai Puteri). The umu test which was…
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