Angkak (red mold rice, red yeast rice, Chinese red rice) is a traditional Chinese medicine produced by solid-state fermentation of cooked non-glutinous rice with Monascus species. The secondary metabolite of Monascus species, monacolin K /lovastatin, has been proven to lower blood lipid levels. In this study, a co-culture of Monascus purpureus MTCC 369 and Monascus ruber MTCC 1880 was used for ...

Furan is a food processing contaminant classified as possibly carcinogenic to humans. As the occurrence of furan has been reported in a variety of foods processed in sealed containers, the objective of this work was to investigate if the contaminant can be found in home-cooked foods prepared in a pressure cooker. For that, several foods including beans, soy beans, whole rice, beef, pork, potato...

Background Little is known about rice consumption, related food intake patterns, and the nutritional contribution that rice provides in the diets of Americans. Objective To provide information about rice consumption in the United States and the diets of rice consumers. Design Data come from the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (1994-1996) and the National Health and Nutrition Ex...

background: this study was aimed to investigate the association of consuming white rice and potato, as well as the bread type with anthropometric measures and blood pressure (bp) in a national sample of iranian children and adolescents. methods: this nationwide study was conducted in 2011-2012 among 14,880 students, aged 6-18 years, selected by multistage cluster sampling from 30 provinces of i...

BACKGROUND The present study identified the most commonly consumed grain food patterns in US children and adolescents (2-18 years-old; N = 8,367) relative to those not consuming grains and compared diet quality and nutrient intakes, with focus on 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2015-2020 DGA) shortfall nutrients. METHODS Cluster analysis using data from the National Health and Nut...

Background: In diabetes mellitus patients, one of the efforts to control normal blood glucose levels is eat low glycemic index foods. Rice an Indonesian staple food that contains carbohydrates. Several methods processing could affect rice. Objectives: To analyze rice processed by several methods. Methods: The design used was quasi-experimental. A total ten people with criteria healthy, aged 19-...

Inorganic arsenic (iAs) is a group 1 carcinogen, and consumption of rice can be significant pathway iAs exposure in the food chain. Although there are regulations place to control for marketed some countries, additional measures explored remove from rice. Due surface-bound soluble nature iAs, previous studies have shown that it removed extent using different cooking methods. Towards this goal w...

A 28-d trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of the main cereal of the diet (corn or rice), heat processing (HP) of rice, and the degree of starch gelatinization (SG) of rice on apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of dietary components and productive performance of pigs weaned at 25 d of age. The experimental design was a completely randomized, with 4 treatments and 8 replicates per ...

Fermented tofu (soybean curd) is widely distributed in East and Southeast Asia. It is known in mainland China and Taiwan as toufu-ru, toufu-ju, furu, rufu, sufu, funan, fuyu, tou-yu, tauzu, in the Philippines as tafuri, in Malaysia as tau ju, in Thailand as tau-fu yee, and in Vietnam as chao or dau-phu-nyu. In Japan, fermented tofu, known as tofuyo, is found only in Okinawa Prefecture (Shurtlef...

the rotor of enegelberg whitener was equipped with a screw conveyor to reduce broken rice percentage. according to preliminary experiments this modification could reduce broken rice percentage about 2.5%. further experiment was performed to determine the effect of rotor speeds and blade positions on white rice quality. to do this, five rotor speeds, consisting 500, 600, 700, 800 and 900 r.p.m a...