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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…
Hadidjatou Bélem, Roland Nâg-Tiero Meda, Benjamin Kouliga Koama, Windmi Kagambéga, Sandrine Nadege Da, Anne Flora Drabo, Assetou Sawadogo, Cyprial Ndumiso Ncobela, Marie-Pierre Létourneau-Montminy, Amadou Traoré, George Anicet Ouédraogo
This work aimed to evaluate the effects of supplementation of Parkia biglobosa fruit pulp flour in the CPAVI chicken ration on the growth performance and carcass characteristics of local chickens. This study involved 50 loc al chicks of eight weeks of age. Ch…
Hilda P. Núñez-Rivas, Marlene Roselló-Araya, Adriana Blanco-Metzler, Benavides-Aguilar Karla, Karol Madriz-Morales
Excess sodium intake is associated with high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases. This study examined food services in Costa Rica as a major source of sodium. The research included six cafeterias, six fast food establishments, 13 restaurants, and 15 di…
Michael B. Aguilera
The Latin American Migration Project-Colombia is used to study t he Body Mass Index (BMI) of Colombian migrants to determine whether their BMI score increased the longer they were abroad. The study contributes to the literature on BMI by studying Colombian mi…
Adriana Blanco-Metzler, Hilda Patricia Nuñez-Rivas, Marlene Roselló-Araya, Karol Madriz-Morales, Karla Benavides-Aguilar, Marco Castro-Araya
High blood pressure and other non-communicable diseases associated with excessive salt/sodium consumption represent a major challenge to the health of the world’s population. Consumption is a human behavior that is usually influenced by significant factors, i…
Dongyang Li, Yu Zhang, Ritsuko Tamura, Toshiro Nakajima, Yuko Caballero, 1 1
The intensity of the bitterness of catechins increases with increased concentration, but the taste palatability decreased in green tea extract. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a blend of tea leaf particles of various sizes would result in a g…
Juliana Vidal Vieira Guerra, Valdecyr Herdy Alves, Brenda Caroline Martins da Silva, Tatiana do Socorro dos Santos Calandrini, Giovanna Rosario Soanno Marchiori, Ediane de Andrade Ferreira, Maria Bertilla Lutterbach Riker Branco, Diego Pereira Rodrigues
Objective: To understand, based on the life narratives of refugee women, food and nutritional security. Method: Qualitative, descriptive, exploratory study, Narratives of life method, by Daniel Bertaux. Conducted with 11 participants, refugee women residing i…
Philip John Kanu, Hamid Turay, Abdulai Kandeh, Mary Hodges
Food safety, nutrition, health and wellbeing are inextricably linked. This study investigated the environmental, awareness and practices amongst both food vendors and consumers in and around Freetown the capital of Sierra Leone. The population of the area has…
Daisuke Takami, Keisuke Okada, Yutaka Makizaki, Yoshiki Tanaka, Hiroshi Ohno, Daisuke Tsuge
Heat-killed Bifidobacterium longum CLA8013 has been demonstrated to improve the frequency of defecation, straining, and pain during defecation in human placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-group studies. We conducted a r andomized, double-blind, placebo…
Ellen Rodrigues dos Santos, José Eduardo Corrente, Rachel Santos Bueno Carvalho, Giovana Fumes-Ghantous
This study aimed to evaluate the features related to consumers’ reading nutritional labels in a city in the interior of the S ã o Paulo State, Brazil. A questionnaire was answered by 100 consumers of a supermarket chain, sociodemographic information and…
Ana Chioru, Aurica Chirsanova
β -glucans are bioactive compounds with a wide range of biological properties, including anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and im mune-modulating properties. Due to their specific physical properties, such as (in)solubility, viscosity, and gelation,…
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