Indian forests are a major source of large number of non-wood forest products. One such product is an exudate tree gum, regionally called as gum Kondagogu (Cochlospermum gossypium DC.), belonging to the family Bixaceae. This gum is collected by tribals in the state of Andhra Pradesh and marketed by Girijan Cooperative Society, Andhra Pradesh, India. Experimental work carried out in our laborato...

introduction: freezing is one of the ways to extend the shelf life and improve the chemical and microbiological stability of food products. food products are exposed to different processes and the functional properties of the products change during these processing. hydrocolloids are used to stabilize the products undergoing different food processing. however the addition of hydrocolloids to fo...

BACKGROUND In some studies, gum-chewing was demonstrated to have a beneficial effect on resumption of bowel function; however, other contradictory findings in other studies refute the effects of gum-chewing on peristaltic movements and digestive system stimulation. In addition, most previous studies were after colorectal or gynecology surgery, whereas few reports focused on the effect of gum-ch...

he reduced daily usage of nicotine gum to 16, 12, and 5 pieces, respectively, while using 3, 7, and 14 pieces of placebo gum. During week 6, he used no nicotine gum intake and averaged 17 pieces of placebo gum per day. During week 7 the 19 pieces of gum he used were divided between placebo gum and bubble gum. By week 8 and at the six-month follow-up he was using only bubble gum. We confirmed th...

stomatitis and gingivitis were diagnosed in twenty-six of 96 horses at a club in mashhad, iran. clinical examination of the affected horses revealed varying degrees of ulceration at the gum-tooth margins with many awns (seed heads) embedded in ulcers. the ulcers were painful, up to 5 cm in diameter, and located at the labial-gingival junction, the lingual frenulum, the base of the lingual dorsu...

We investigated brain electric field signatures of subjective feelings after chewing regular gum or gum base without flavor. 19-channel eyes-closed EEG from 20 healthy males before and after 5 minutes of chewing the two gum types in random sequence was source modeled in the frequency domain using the FFT-Dipole-Approximation. 3-dimensional brain locations and strengths (Global Field Power, GFP)...