The growing evidence on the association between consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, obesity and other chronic diseases has highlighted the need to implement policy actions that go beyond programs exclusively focused on individual responsibility. In order to protect their commercial goals in Latin America, the sugar-sweetened beverage industry practices intense lobbying at high government ...

From the commercial extract of the leaves of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni, a minor steviol glycoside, 13-[(2-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-3-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-β-D-glucopyranosyl)oxy] ent-kaur-16-en-19-oic acid-[(2-O-(3-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-3-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-β-D-glucopyranosyl) ester] (1); also known as rebaudioside O having seven sugar units has been isolated. Its structural ch...

Dextran is one of the by-products of sour-storage rot of sugar cane (Egan, 1971). The presence of dextran in cane juice entering the mill has many deleterious effects on raw sugar processing and quality (Foster, 1969a,b; Henderson, 1971; Foster and Wright, 1969; Leonard and Richards, 1969). Hence, the removal of the polysaccharide from juice may alleviate these effects. Physico-chemical methods...

Fourier Transform mid-Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-MIR) shared with multivariate statistics was applied for the quantitative analysis of total sugar in 9 processed commercial fruit juices. PLSR (Partial least-squares regression) was used to generate calibration models that were cross-validated. As an analytical technique, the suitability of FTIR in mid-range (4000-1cm-4001cm) is investigates in th...

Pretreatment of biomass is an extremely important step in a commercial biorefinery. For realization of lignocellulosic biomass as an alternative fuel source to occur, a fundamental understanding and critical investigation of the chosen pretreatment are essential. In this work, green liquor (GL) pretreatment of four plant species, namely Masson pine, poplar, moso bamboo, and miscanthus, was inve...

Apple pomace extract (APE) in aerobic variable fed batch culture under standardized fermentation parameters was evaluated for the production of baker’s yeast. The substrate was fed at a flow rate of 0.39 dm h to regulate fermentable sugar concentration between 1-2 % in bioreactor. An average specific growth rate of 0.24 h and cellular yield coefficient of 0.48 g/g sugar was obtained during bake...

Stevioside is a natural sweetener from Stevia leaf, which is 300 times sweeter than sugar. It helps to reduce blood sugar levels dramatically and thus can be of benefit to diabetic people. Tissue culture is a very potential modern technology that can be used in large-scale disease-free stevia production throughout the year. We successfully produced stevia plant through in vitro culture for iden...

resistance of 16 sugar beet cultivars to cercospora leaf spot was evaluated in ghaemshahr region. the experiment was conducted in a complete block design with 6 replications, and, disease severity of cultivars was measured two times. root yield of cultivars, as well as their disease severity, was compared with each other under natural cercospora infection in dezful area (winter crop). in dezful...

resistance of 16 sugar beet cultivars to cercospora leaf spot was evaluated in ghaemshahr region. the experiment was conducted in a complete block design with six replications and disease severity of cultivars was measured two times. as a winter crop the root yield of cultivars and their disease severity compared under natural cercospora infection in dezfoul area in a complete block design with...

Sweetness, a creamy texture and aroma, along with desirable kernel color, good germination, and high yield, are the important traits for sweet corn. Various recessive mutants in corn expressed in the endosperm e.g. sugary1 (su1), sugary enhancer (se), shrunken2 (sh2), brittle1 (bt) etc., which improve quality traits such as sweetness, flavor and nutritive value have been used either singly or i...