Riboflavin Content of Processed Albuminous Foods.

Emerging opportunities for monitoring the nutritional content of processed foods.

For almost a century, cardiovascular disease has been the number one cause of death in the United States, and hypertension is a leading risk factor. The relation between sodium intake and blood pressure is positive, continuous, and well established (1) as is the need to reduce population sodium intake to lower blood pressure and save lives (1, 2). Although sodium reduction efforts were first in...

5-Methyltetrahydrofolate Content of Cereal-Based Processed Foods

Improving periconceptional folate status reduces the risk of neonatal neural tube defects. Therefore, increased folate intake is recommended before and during the early stages of pregnancy through folic acid supplements or fortified foods. Folates also have a role in prevention of other diseases such as Cardiovascular, Cancers, Alzheimer [1]. Folates exist in a variety of forms related to the p...

Sodium content of processed foods in the United Kingdom: analysis of 44,000 foods purchased by 21,000 households123

BACKGROUND In the United Kingdom, sodium reduction targets have been set for a large number of processed food categories. Assessment and monitoring are essential to evaluate progress. OBJECTIVES Our aim was to determine whether household consumer panel food-purchasing data could be used to assess the sodium content of processed foods. Our further objectives were to estimate the mean sodium co...

The Sodium Content of Processed Foods in South Africa during the Introduction of Mandatory Sodium Limits

BACKGROUND In June 2016, the Republic of South Africa introduced legislation for mandatory limits for the upper sodium content permitted in a wide range of processed foods. We assessed the sodium levels of packaged foods in South Africa during the one-year period leading up to the mandatory implementation date of the legislation. METHODS Data on the nutritional composition of packaged foods w...

Riboflavin content of the native iranian poultry eggs