This paper presents LCAFDB, a crowdsourced database for collecting Life Cycle Assessment data for foodstuff. Such an open database is useful to facilitate the development of feedback systems about greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for food. We describe the design challenges encountered while we developed the system and our solutions. We also exemplify by a number of applications developed that use...

BACKGROUND Food fraud/adulteration has ever increasingly become a dominant food issue of the modern world in both developed and developing countries. It is presumed that globalisation is mainly one of the underlying reasons. OBJECTIVES To assess and analyse the occurrence of food fraud on the Polish market during 2005-2012. MATERIAL AND METHODS Adulteration of foodstuffs was determined from...

BACKGROUND Considering the increasing prevalence of depression in contemporary societies, general tendency for safer treatments with fewer side effects has recently been a subject of interest. OBJECTIVES Food-based strategies, which are one of the outstanding medical solutions in Complementary and Alternative Medicine including Iranian Traditional Medicine have been investigated. MATERIALS ...

A rapid and convenient measurement of tryptophan in whole blood, serum, liver, brain, urine, and alkaline hydrolysates of proteins and foodstuff was done by high-performance liquid chromatography. The sample preparation was simply homogenized or mixed in a 5% trichloroacetic acid solution and a sample of the supernatant was injected onto a column after filtration with a 0.45-micron filter. The ...

Artocarpus camansi (AC) has been long used by Indonesian local people as food and traditional medicine. This study aims to explain the relationship between use of AC a ingredient medicine its bioactivity. The method in writing this article is literature on various scientific articles published online at Google Scholar using AC, uses bioactivities. results obtained were synthesized so be able bo...