The Variety Evaluation Project at SASRI involves conducting variety trials throughout the South African sugar industry. A general trend is that trial yields consistently exaggerate commercial yields obtained by growers under the same conditions. The objective of this study was to use historic variety trial and commercial yield data to evaluate the possibility of using correction factors and plo...

OBJECTIVE To elucidate status and trends in portion size of foods rich in fat and/or added sugars during the past decades, and to bring portion size into perspective in its role in obesity and dietary guidelines in Denmark. DATA SOURCES Information about portion sizes of low-fat and full-fat food items was obtained from a 4-day weighed food record (Study 1). Trends in portion sizes of commerc...

in order to transfer rhizomania resistance genes to improved sugar beet lines, crosses were made between 11 commercial resistant varieties and two improved inbred o-type lines of sugar beet (231 and 261) at agricultural research center of khorasan razavi   and jam sugar factory in 2007. o-types carried self fertile (sf) genes and contained male sterile (ms) genotypes. commercial varieties were ...

Under the conditions used to prepare the traditional sugar syrups and caramels, commercial sucrose is heated with small amounts of water in order to attain supersaturated (at room temperature) solutions. Undesuch conditions, a lag phase in sucrose thermal degradation was experimentally observed. This lag phase was also observed in the formation of reaction products, and can be interpreted has a...

BACKGROUND Lactobacillus bulgaricus LB6 is a bacterium which was selected in the commercial yoghurt with high angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity. Preparation of concentrated starter cultures via freeze drying is of practical importance to dairy and food industries. METHODS We optimized the optimal sugar alcohol and proteins for Lactobacillus bulgaricus LB6 during the proc...

OBJECTIVES To analyse the nature and content of advertising during children's popular television viewing times with the specific aims of (i) identifying the proportion of advertising time devoted to confectionery and potentially cariogenic products (those which readily give rise to dental caries, more commonly known as tooth decay); and (ii) determining whether there is a variation in the adver...

the postharvest vase life of cut roses was studied to determine the effects of various physiological factors that influence the vase life of cut flower. cut roses were obtained from commercial area of siliguri. to assess the effect of preservatives on the postharvest life of rose, cut flowers were treated with following preservative solutions: fixed amount of citric acid (ca) (300 mg/ml) and 8-...

Efficient pretreatment is the key step in catalytic biomass conversion. Herein, a mixed ball-milling method was used to pretreat cellulose with a solid catalyst. The method was tested with solid acid and commercial 5 wt% Ru/C in water, and the effect of pretreatment on yield was measured by the hydrolytic-hydrogenation of cellulose to sugar alcohols, which are the platform compounds for the pro...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to measure the availability of energy-dense foods and sugar-sweetened beverages in pharmacies and to examine differences by pharmacy type and presence of a food policy. DESIGN Trained research staff visited pharmacies (n 37) to measure shelf space and variety of snacks, candy and sugar-sweetened beverages available within 10 ft (3·05 m) of the ph...

There is a lack of agreement in the literature as to whetlher or not fructose occurs in the roots of the carrot. Apparenitly the reducing sugar is thought by many to be composed largely or entirely of glucose, and that little or no fructose is present. Sucrose and glucose have been reported by DIETRICH (5), RITTENHAUSEN (5), PLATENIUS (8, 9), BARNES (1), and WERNER (14). Sucrose was identified ...