Morula (Sclerocarya birrea) beer is a seasonal homemade alcoholic beverage made from morula fruits pulp. Unlike the commercial beverage, alcohol content of not known. The major challenges with beverages arise batch-to-batch differences in product quality and safety due to variability raw materials lack control. Consequently, by same individual may differ. In this study, validated liquid-liquid ...

background: doogh is a popular dairy beverage in iran which its main ingredient is yogurt. the aim of this study was evaluation of bacterial and fungal contamination of this product marketed in lorestan province, west of iran. methods: a total of 200 doogh samples consisted of 150 commercial samples, including five different brands and also 50 homemade samples were purchased randomly from marke...

Background & objectives: Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers have many applications in the food industry. Although there are numerous advantages for PET it also has some disadvantages, one of which is the migration of materials from the container into the material inside. In this study, the effect of two factors of storage time and temperature on the migration rate was evaluated and mod...

BACKGROUND Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have a higher incidence of cardiovascular (CV) events. The ingestion of high-glycemic index (GI) diets, specially sweetened beverage consumption, has been associated with the development of T2DM and CV disease. OBJECTIVE We investigated the effects of the intake of a sweetened beverage, obtained from natural carbohydrates containing pin...

Energy-containing beverages have a weak effect on satiety, limited by their fluid characteristics and perhaps because they are not considered 'food'. This study investigated whether the context of consuming a beverage can influence the satiating power of its nutrients. Eighty participants consumed a lower- (LE, 75 kcal) and higher-energy (HE, 272 kcal) version of a beverage (covertly manipulate...

The standards of plant toxins were separated by a C18 column with gradient elution 0.1% formic acid/water (V/V) and acid/acetonitrile as mobile phase acquired ion mobility-quadrupole time flight mass spectrometry (IM-QTOF MS) in positive mode. A database 308 including retention time, collision cross-section (CCS) its fragment ions was established. Honey dissolved water or herbal beverage extrac...

Osmotic distillation technique was used for the total dealcoholization of a red wine (Aglianico grape variety) up to 0.19 vol.%. The dealcoholization process was performed in subsequent cycles which gave rise wine samples at different alcoholic degrees. The effect of processing on the main chemical and physical properties of Aglianico wine was evaluated. Among wine samples, no significant diffe...

this study compared diet and regular coca-cola on enamel erosion in cold and room temperatures.seventy five enamel specimens were prepared and divided into 5 equal groups (n=15) as follows: group 1: regular beverage at room temperature, group 2: regular beverage at refri-gerator temperature, group 3: diet beverage at room and group 4: diet beverage at refrige-rator temperature. the specimens we...

PURPOSE To investigate whether alcoholic beverages popular among underage youths are more likely than those less popular among these youths to be advertised in magazines with high underage youth readerships. METHODS We compared the alcohol advertisement placement in 118 magazines during the period 2002 to 2006 for alcoholic beverages popular among youths to that of alcoholic beverages less li...

BACKGROUND Whilst exogenous carbohydrate oxidation (CHOEXO) is influenced by mono- and disaccharide combinations, debate exists whether such beverages enhance fluid delivery and exercise performance. Therefore, this study aimed to ascertain CHOEXO, fluid delivery and performance times of a commercially available maltodextrin/ fructose beverage in comparison to an isocaloric maltodextrin beverag...