By B. B. BRAHMACHARI, d.p.h. Director of Public Health Laboratory, Bengal As I have shown in my article on the vitamin value of the food fats of Bengal (Brahmachari, 1932), mustard oil, i.e., the oil expressed from the seeds of the mustard plants, and ghee are the only two fats which enter, as such, into the dietary of the people of Bengal, and, of the two, mustard oil is the more important. It...

There is a tendency to consider forages largely in terms of their energy value or TDN. However, the feeding value of forage is actually a more complex function of its nutrient composition, chemical-physical characteristics of its fiber, acceptability (palatability), and associative interactions it might have with other dietary ingredients. Because forages are not usually cost-competitive with c...

Rice is the major foodgrain of the world and it is the principle cereal consumed in India and other parts of Asia1. Milling of paddy to obtain edible rice grain yields two major byproducts of economic and nutritional importance, namely, paddy husk and rice bran. Paddy husk has no food value but has several industrial uses. Rice bran, on the other hand, can serve as an animal feed, as a human fo...

With obesity reaching epidemic proportions in many countries around the world, the search for the causes of and potential solutions for this condition continues. It is noteworthy that the increase in the consumption of added or discretionary sugars has mirrored the dramatic rise in the prevalence of obesity over the past few decades. Although certainly not the only factor contributing to the ob...

This study was carried out to determine the effects of Lactobacillus plantarum on chemical compositionand nutritive value of whole-plant corn (WPC) ensiled at different stages of maturity. Based on local routinepractice, WPC was harvested at three stages of maturity as follows: (1) two weeks before routine harvestingtime; (2), one week before routine harvesting time and (3), routine harvesting ...