An experiment was conducted with five types of herbal preparations viz (Mentha piperita L.) leaves, Turmeric (Curcuma longa) rhizome, Tulsi (Ocimum tenuiflorum) leaves Amla (Phyllanthus emblica) fruit and combination of these four named as Boon formulated by Natural Herbs and Formulations to study the performance of broilers(n= 300). The better body weight gain and higher feed intake (P<0.05) w...

The high level of meat and saturated fat consumption in the USA and other high-income countries exceeds nutritional needs and contributes to high rates of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus and some cancers. Affluent citizens in middle- and low-income countries are adopting similar high-meat diets and experiencing increased rates of these same chronic diseases. T...

In the present study, chemometric analysis of visible spectral data of phospho-and silico-molybdenum blue complexes was used to develop artificial neural networks (ANNs) for the simultaneous determination of the phosphate and silicate. Combinations of principal component analysis (PCA) with feed-forward neural networks (FFNNs) and radial basis function networks (RBFNs) were built and investigat...

Enteral nutrition (EN) is the mainstay of nutrition delivery within intensive care seeking to capitalise on its benefits for the gastrointestinal tract and associated immune system, but this has brought new challenges in delivery to the sick. The hoped for benefit has led to the mistaken belief by some that parenteral nutrition (PN) is no longer required. However, a greater appreciation of the ...

Most cattle harbor internal parasites. Parasitic in­ fections cost the U.S. beef industry more than $3 billion in economic losses due to reduced weight gain and feed conversion and increased stress leading to in­ creased susceptibility to diseases. Parasite populations and levels of infection are influenced by environmental factors and the production and management systems. In Hawaii, the subtr...

Experimental results from the transient drying of sheets of polyester in an infrared (IR) dryer were used to derive a performance model. Separate drying experiments were done using sheets of material of various densities and thicknesses. The formulations expressed the core temperature of the web to the surface temperature of the web as a function of the residency time in the dryer and the elect...

Highly unsaturated fatty acids such as docosahexaenoic acid and linolenic acid are prone to oxidation with a resulting loss of bioactivity and generation of malodorous degradation compounds. Degradation proceeds by formation of the corresponding hydroperoxyl free radical with subsequent oxidative cleavage at the double bond site. FTIR-ATR was used to detect degradation through spectral changes ...

There have been dramatic changes in how infants were fed during the 20th century. Almost universal at the turn of the century, breastfeeding declined until midcentury, after which it once again became the norm. Until recent years, the health benefits of breastfeeding were not emphasized, and synthetic formulations were popular. Only of late have health professionals become involved in the promo...

Background State-of-the-art medium and feed development has proven its potential for increasing bioprocess efficiency many times. By the application of such advanced chemically defined and animal component-free formulations, in combination with recent cell lines, the yield of mammalian cell cultures was pushed to the binary gram per liter level. In this work, the current progress in designing s...

The subject of this study is the development of flavor wax formulations aimed for food and feed products. The melt dispersion technique was applied for the encapsulation of ethyl vanillin in wax microcapsules. The surface morphology of microparticles was investigated using scanning electron microscope (SEM), while the loading content was determined by HPLC measurements. This study shows that th...