Chicken meat in two different forms (chicken meat and chicken meat powder) were added into white flour and whole wheat blend baguette bread formulations for protein enrichment and finally developing new and healthy snacks. The chicken meat and powder levels were 10% for white flour baguette, and 15% for whole wheat blend. The dried baguette samples were packaged under 100% N2, and physical, che...

BACKGROUND Advertising has been implicated in the declining quality of the American diet, but much of the research has been conducted with children rather than adults. This study tested the effects of televised food advertising on adult food choice. METHODS Participants (N = 351) were randomized into one of 4 experimental conditions: exposure to food advertising vs. exposure to non-food adver...

The aim of this study was to evaluate self-produced nutraceutical treats, taking into account the nutritional preferences dogs, and analyze proximate composition, macrominerals trace elements content. Four variants snacks were prepared—two extruded two baked. consisted wholegrain buckwheat flour, spelt banded cricket meal, dried hemp inflorescences, dry spirulina biomass, linseed (in case baked...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether children's food consumption is increased by the size of the group of children in which they are eating. DESIGN Crossover study. SETTING University based preschool. PARTICIPANTS 54 children, aged 2.5-6.5 years. INTERVENTIONS Each child ate a standardised snack in a group of three children, and in a group of nine children. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Amount each...

The purpose of this study was to determine the meal- and snack-eating frequency and the nutritional composition of each eating occasion of Canadian high-performance athletes during training. Athletes from 8 Canadian Sport Centres prospectively completed 3-d dietary records including all food, fluid, and supplements consumed. The time of consumption and whether the consumption was a meal or snac...

This study built on limited knowledge about patterns and trends of adult snacking in the US. We selected adults aged 19 y and older (n = 44,754) between 1977-1978 and 2003-2006 with results weighted and adjusted for sample design effects. Differences testing, by a Student's t test, used STATA 10 (P < or = 0.01). We defined a snacking event as intake of foods over a 15-min period and excluded fo...

OBJECTIVE To conduct an analysis of the frequency of unhealthy food advertising on mainland Chinese television (TV) and children and adolescents' risk of exposure to them. METHODS The frequencies of all types of advertisements (ads) on forty TV channels in mainland China, the exact ad broadcast times, and the name and brand of all snacks and western fast foods advertised were recorded from 08...

s: Corn based-snacks which are a type of food that very popular among children and the contamination of this type of food may be hazardous to those susceptible young age consumers. Corn is the main source of contamination in this food. Fumonisins are among the hazardous mycotoxin that may exist in corn. Therefore, the aim of this study was to asses the level of Fumonisin B and fungal contaminat...

This study investigated the correlation between consumption of sugar intake by fifth grade students in primary schools and development of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). A total of 107 students participated, and eight boys and one girl (8.4% of the total) categorized as high risk for ADHD according to diagnostic criteria. There were significant differences in the occupations an...

This study aims to identify major food sources of energy and macronutrients among Flemish preschoolers as a basis for evaluating dietary guidelines. Three-day estimated diet records were collected from a representative sample of 696 Flemish preschoolers (2.5-6.5 years old; participation response rate: 50%). For 11 dietary constituents, the contribution of 57 food groups was computed by summing ...