OBJECTIVES We explore the association between a neighbourhood's ethnic composition and the foods and nutrients consumed by Mexican-Americans. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of a large national sample, from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988-94), was linked to the 1990 Census. The outcomes were food frequencies and serum levels of micronutrients. The variable of in...

Health properties and uses of soybean, as well as the different chemical and botanical characteristics of this legume are shown in this review. Soybean represents an excellent source of high quality protein, it has a low content in saturated fat, it contains a great amount of dietary fibre and its isoflavone content makes it singular among other legumes. Many researches have been carried out in...

Cicer reticulatum L. is the wild progenitor of the fourth most important legume crop chickpea (C. arietinum L.). We assembled short-read sequences into 416 Mb draft genome of C. reticulatum and anchored 78% (327 Mb) of this assembly to eight linkage groups. Genome annotation predicted 25,680 protein-coding genes covering more than 90% of predicted gene space. The genome assembly shared a substa...

BACKGROUND & AIMS A well-balanced diet is the first-line treatment in hyperlipidemia. The objective was to study the association between serum phytosterols and dietary patterns to use them as surrogate markers of dietary compliance in primary dyslipidemias. METHODS 288 patients with primary hyperlipidemias (192 autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia (ADH) and 96 familial combined hyperlipide...

The purpose of scientific research was to form the taste and aroma fish semi-finished products culinary products. objects in development formulation technology model minced were: pollock, onion, eggs, milk or water, powdered were used as a biologically active additive: flour from buckwheat, corn, rice, wheat, amaranth, almonds, flax, chickpeas, spirulina dill for cooking cutlets. Combinations b...

In this study, we evaluated vitamin D and mineral (iron, zinc, magnesium) transfer to the bolus aqueous phase during digestion of meals with/without pulses. We performed in vitro digestions using test made either i) beef and/or semolina chickpeas, or ii) potatoes supplemented not with fibers, phytates, tannins saponins. Chickpea presence led a decrease bioaccessibility (?56%, p ? 0.05) solubili...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), an important leguminous crop has a dwindling croparea everyday due to climate change, and the overall yield declined. In controlled conditionexperiment, four distinct levels of drought were applied ten different varieties chickpeas in petridish using polyethylene glycol (PEG) @ 0, 10, 20, 30%. As differentiating factors, germinationrate, plumule, radicle lengths u...

The objective of this study was to use nanohybrid Curcumin Cur-ZnO and Cur-MgO as well free curcumin detect, isolate, characterize, inhibit the development certain yeasts locally isolated from some spoilage foods. Yeasts responsible for spoiling were recovered in 21 different colonies cheese, cooked pickles, fig jam, apple dates, rice, canned chickpeas, dried figs. Nine yeast isolates chosen fu...

The world's food demand is increasing rapidly due to fast population growth that has posed a challenge meeting the requirements of nutritionally balanced diets. Pulses could play major role in human diet combat these challenges and provide nutritional physiological benefits. such as chickpeas, green gram, peas, horse beans, lentils, black etc., are rich sources protein (190–260 g kg −1 ), carbo...