Awareness that undesirable levels of aflatoxin in food and feed may have serious consequences for human and animal health is increasing. Aflatoxins, probably the most studied and widely known mycotoxins, were first noted in the early 1960s. They are among the most potent mutagenic substances known; there is extensive experimental and epidemiological evidence that they induce liver cancer (WHO, ...

In this study, a brief evaluation will be made on Turkish delight (lokum) that is a starch jelly a traditional Turkish food product and has importance for the Turkey. The functions of the main ingredients such as sugar, starch and water on the overall lokum quality will be discussed. Then production problems and some additives have been used in lokum production will be indicated. Additionally m...

Background and objectives: Menopause is associated with depression as well as emotional and memory disorders. Based on the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects of pistachio, its effect on depression, cognitive function, anxiety and physical power in ovariectomized mice was investigated. Methods: In the current study, fifty female mice were used. They were ...

abstract in this study, fresh pistachio of 'ohadi' and 'akbari' cultivars expose to the uv-c radiation with a wavelength of 0, 3, 6 and 12 kj/m2, then located at temperature of 1 ± 3 degrees celsius for 45 days. properties or attributes, including weight loss, stiffness and sensory evaluation of fresh pistachio after 20 and 45 days storage were measured. results showed that pistachio nut weight...

Reports of foreign bodies in the oronasal complex have included bullets, impression materials, teeth, fish bones, needles, plastics, pistachio nuts, earrings, and the traumatic implantation of a toothbrush." These foreign bodies have been found by palpation, direct visualization, or as incidental findings on radiographs. A thorough history may establish an etiology and time frame in which the f...

fresh pistachio nuts undergo biochemical and physiological changes after harvest and postharvest and as a result, it has a short shelf life. the purpose of this research is to study the effects of packaging type and edible coating on quality and increasing the shelf life of fresh pistachio nut. therefore, two separate experiment were conducted and in first one the individual fresh pistachio wer...

Background: There is a lack of information regarding anaphylaxis that is triggered by the peanut and nuts in countries with emerging economies. We aimed to identify the factors that are related to the prevalence of secondary anaphylaxis that results from ingesting peanuts or nuts. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional, population-based study was conducted in which we applied a structured qu...

The previously reported [Pearson, T. Lebensm. Wiss. -Technol. 1996, 28 (6), 203-209] channel image sorter has been used to re-sort color-sort and hand-sort rejects and to sort mainstream (pre-handsort) U.S. pistachios. Sorting was carried out at commercial speeds of up to 163 kg/channel/h. Recoveries of good nuts of 39-67% on re-sorted product and 97.8% on mainstream nuts were achieved. Aflatox...

X-ray images of pistachio nuts on conveyor trays for product inspection are considered. The rst step in such a processor is to locate each individual item and place it in a separate le for input to a classiier to determine the quality of each nut. This paper considers new techniques to: detect each item (each nut can be in any orientation, we employ new rotation-invariant lters to locate each i...