they are digested with difficulty. Excessive quantities of nutriment at frequent intervals are taken into the stomach with the aid of condiments in consequence of this craze for concentrated foods. There is a tendency to feed healthy children and adults on the predigested foods devised for diseased states, and to diet men on the genito-urinary products of the lower animals, such as eggs and mil...

UNLABELLED Ferula ovina (Boiss.) Boiss. is a traditional Iranian flavoring agent used as an ingredient of spices and condiments. METHODS AND RESULTS GC-MS analyses of F. ovina aerial parts' essential oil revealed the presence of a number of rare aromatic esters of monoterpenic alcohols. The structures of these esters were corroborated by synthesis, and one of them, bornyl 4-methoxybenzoate, t...

OBJECTIVE To study an array of household individual and dietary risk factors for neurolathyrism. METHOD Case-control study using recent cases in a district highly affected by the recent neurolathyrism epidemic in Ethiopia: 108 households with cases and 104 households with no cases; 170 neurolathyrism cases, 370 intra-family controls and 170 community controls frequency matched for age and sex...

Although the practice of adding salt to food is an ancient one, there seems to be little doubt that until relatively modern times its widespread use as a condiment was uncommon. At present, the practice is a ubiquitous one and, in the United States at least, salt may be added at any stage before, during or after food-processing as well as before, during or after cooking. And sometimes salting t...

I have a family history of diabetes, so I try and control my sugar intake. I am having a lot of trouble figuring out how much sugar is the maximum amount of sugar to allow in my diet. I have read that "added sugar" intake should be limited to no more than ten percent of your daily calories, but I have no idea how to determine what amount of sugar in food is natural versus added. I assume that a...

I have a family history of diabetes, so I try and control my sugar intake. I am having a lot of trouble figuring out how much sugar is the maximum amount of sugar to allow in my diet. I have read that "added sugar" intake should be limited to no more than ten percent of your daily calories, but I have no idea how to determine what amount of sugar in food is natural versus added. I assume that a...

Legumes and oil bean seeds used for the production of condiments in Africa are inedible in their natural state; they contain some anti-nutritional factors especially undigestible oligosaccharides and phytate. Fermentation impact desirable changes by reducing anti-nutritional factors and increasing digestibility. Ugba is an alkaline fermented African oil bean cotyledon (Pentaclethra macrophylla)...

Garlic botanically known as Allium sativum is the second most widely used crop of genus after onion (Allium cepa). It belongs to family Alliaceae. spice and condiments. The edible part garlic its underground stem, which composed number smaller bulbs cloves. a cool season crop. Cool humid climate required for vegetative growth relatively dry period bulb formation. can be grown in variety soil pH...

The aim of this experiment was to determine the antibacterial actions of the extracts of garlic, ginger, onion, basil, sweet and hot peppers on some human pathogenic bacteria (Klebsiella pneumoniae, Streptococcus faecalis, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli). Crude and filtered extracts of the plants were prepared by using water and tested on the pathogenic...