BACKGROUND During the post-communist transition period, political, economic, and social changes affected the lifestyles of the Lithuanian population, including their nutritional habits. However, people of lower socio-economic position were more vulnerable to these changes. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the trends in selected food habits of the Lithuanian adult population by their...

Purpose of Review: This review is aimed at illustrating the directions in which research on controlled atmosphere (CA), modified atmosphere (MA) and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) for fresh and fresh-cut vegetables has been focused since about 2000, and to highlight significant new findings in the field. Findings: In the last 5 years, little research with vegetables has been carried out to...

The popularity in the consumption of fresh and fresh-cut vegetables continues to increase globally. Fresh vegetables are an integral part of a healthy diet, providing vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other health-promoting compounds. The diversity of fresh vegetables and packaging formats (spring mix in clamshell container, bagged heads of lettuce) support increased consumption. Unfortunate...

Interest in the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables has been increasing, in part because of recent findings on the high level of obesity and other diet-related health problems in children and in part because of increased federal support of programs funding consumption of fresh and processed fruit and vegetable products. The following discussion is based in part on a review by Rickman et ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the ability of general versus specific health-benefit claims in increasing consumer purchase intentions for a widely consumed vegetable, fresh mushrooms. The results indicate that specific claims work better with well-known versus lesser-known nutrients. Also, consumers’ knowledge about a nutrient increases the effectiveness of nutrientbased health c...

background: this study was conducted to estimate the level of heavy metals accumulate in vegetables irrigated with contaminated water compared with those irrigated with fresh water in hamadan, west of iran in 2012. methods: sixty samples of different vegetables i.e., parsley, tarragon, sweat basil and leek irrigated with contaminated water and thirty six samples from three different adjacent ar...

The IgE-mediated allergic reactions to food are caused, generally, by ingestion. However, they can be rarely induced by exposure to airborne food particles through the handling or the cooking. Vicia faba is a vegetable which belongs to Legumes or Fabaceae family, Fabales order. Allergic reactions after ingestion of legumes and cases of asthma after exposure to the cooking vapors have been repor...

A detection method using polystyrene-coated magnetic nanoparticles based extraction technique coupled to HPLC was developed for trace amount of pyrethroids residue detection in vegetable matrixes. The recoveries for five kinds of commonly used pyrethroids were in the range of 91.6%-116.2%. The sensitivity and precision of the method were satisfactory with the limits of detection and limits of q...

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