Processing Food ...Decreases or Increases Nutritive Value?

Nutritive Value of Biharee Cooked Food Preparations

In order that dietitians and physicians be able to prescribe and give proper suggestions to individuals or groups, regarding their diet, it is desirable to have a knowledge about the nutritive value of the cooked food preparations of that particular place. Such values for South Indian districts have been reported by Devadas (1949), but so far no work has been done on this subject in this State....

The Maillard reaction and pet food processing: effects on nutritive value and pet health.

The Maillard reaction, which can occur during heat processing of pet foods or ingredients, is known to reduce the bioavailability of essential amino acids such as lysine due to the formation of early and advanced Maillard reaction products (MRP) that are unavailable for utilisation by the body. Determination of the difference between total and reactive lysine by chemical methods provides an ind...

Different processing effects on nutritive value of barely grains by gas production method

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of warm and cold physical as well as chemical processing methods on the nutritive value of barley grains by gas production technique. The processing methods included milling, steam flaking, extruding and soaking up the grain in water containing 1.00% citric acid, 1.00% propionic acid and 0.01 M sulfuric acid. Two-hundred mg of milling sam...

Nutritive Value of Sawdust

The present study was undertaken to observe the chemical composition of different types of sawdust available in the urban and peri-urban areas of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Twenty different types of sawdust from different plants were collected from study areas. Chemical analyses of the samples were carried out in triplicate for moisture, dry matter (DM), metabolizable energy (ME), crude protein (C...

Nutritive Value of Rice