Fermented Food and Ancient Civilization

The Basics of Human ' Civilization Food

Fermented dairy food and CVD risk.

Fermented dairy foods such as yoghurt and cheese are commonly found in the Mediterranean diet. Recent landmark research has confirmed the effect of the Mediterranean diet on reducing the CVD risk, but the relative contributions of fermented dairy foods have not been fully articulated. The present study provides a review of the relationship between fermented dairy foods consumption and CVD risk ...

Nutritional Guidelines and Fermented Food Frameworks

This review examines different nutritional guidelines, some case studies, and provides insights and discrepancies, in the regulatory framework of Food Safety Management of some of the world's economies. There are thousands of fermented foods and beverages, although the intention was not to review them but check their traditional and cultural value, and if they are still lacking to be classed as...

Anticancer activity of botanical compounds in ancient fermented beverages (review).

Humans around the globe probably discovered natural remedies against disease and cancer by trial and error over the millennia. Biomolecular archaeological analyses of ancient organics, especially plants dissolved or decocted as fermented beverages, have begun to reveal the preliterate histories of traditional pharmacopeias, which often date back thousands of years earlier than ancient textual, ...

Developmental History of Paddy Rice and Arid Agriculture in Ancient Chinese Civilization

F. Bayerl): The lower Yellow and Yangtze Basins are seen as two independent origins of Chinese agriculture. The Yellow offers arid conditions, while the Yangtze has an aquatic environment, the former favourable to maize, millet and sorghum, and the latter to paddy rice. The two main theories of agricultural origins are Optimal Foraging and Competitive Feasting. The differing environments of the...