ECOLOGY: Food Preservative

Food Microbiology, Molecular Microbial Ecology, Food Ecology

Impact of next generation sequencing techniques in Food Microbiology 1 2 Baltasar Mayo 1 , Caio T. C. C. Rachid 2 , Ángel Alegría 1 , Analy M. O. Leite 2 , Raquel S. 3 Peixoto 2 , and Susana Delgado 1 4 5 Departamento de Microbiología y Bioquímica, Instituto de Productos Lácteos de 6 Asturias (IPLA-CSIC), Paseo Río Linares s/n, 33300-Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain 1 , and 7 Instituto de Microbio...

Ecology: Engineered food webs

An important new study shows that, in a food web, the strengths and arrangement of the interactions between species are determining factors of stability of the system.

A Focus on Chlorine Dioxide: The Promising Food Preservative

Chlorine dioxide (ClO2) is an unstable green-yellowish gas with an irritating odor [1]. In water, ClO2 exists as free radicals and as a powerful oxidizing agent, it reacts easily with reducing agents. The end products of ClO2 reactions are chloride (Cl-), chlorite (ClO-), and chlorate (ClO3) [2]. Chlorine dioxide is a promising food preservative as a substitute for chlorine (Cl2) because unlike...

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Ecology of Food and Nutrition is an internatibnal journal of the nutritional sciences. I t particularly emphasizes foods and their utilintion in satisfying the nutritional needs of mankind, but extends also to nonfood contributions: to obesity and leanness, malnutrition, vitamin requirements, and mineral needs. The scope is broad, and the content wide, so that culture prohibitions, traditional ...

Ecology. Food web ecology: playing Jenga and beyond.