Today, dietary guidelines, healthy-eating pyramids, and other nutritional advice are a familiar expected feature of governance. It was not always so. What we eat has been such interest to the state. That people ate course very important; since ancient times rulers have feared disruptive effects famine. The minutiae what ordinary folk ate, in contrast, rarely considered an important component st...

A 2002 Prince Edward Island (PEI) Agricultural Crop Rotations (ACR) Act and other sustainable land use policies regulate what crops can be grown in rotation with potatoes, and the frequency and sequence of specific crops in such rotation systems. Given that there are alternative crops that may be rotated with potatoes and managed for various rotation lengths, the policies raise questions about ...

Potato is the raw food material that has been used the most in frying operations due to the high demand of consumers all over the world. Detection of high concentrations of acrylamide in heated starch rich foodstuffs, such as potato, by the Swedish National Food Administration in April 2002 attained public concern because this product is a suspected human carcinogen. Maillard reaction is sugges...

Biodiversity is considered a critical measure of the agricultural health of the world. Not only does increased biodiversity contribute to nutrient production and consumption, but it acts as a safeguard against food shortages due to pests and diseases by spreading the risk. Biodiversity can improve dietary diversity in such a way to ultimately contribute to improved food and nutrition security. ...

The objectives of the present study were (1) to investigate the qualitative composition of rhizodeposits leached from soils cropped with non-transgenic and genetically modified (GM) potatoes, and disclose if there were GM-specific modifications in potato rhizodeposition, and (2) to compare these results with conventional bulk parameters of microbial activity in soil. We have raised potatoes fro...

Soybeans produced by induced mutation breeding and hybridization were cracked, flaked and hexane-extracted, and the recovered crude oils were processed to finished edible oils by laboratory simulations of commercial oil-processing procedures. Three lines yielded oils containing 1.7, 1.9 and 2.5% linolenic acid. These low-linolenic acid oils were evaluated along with oil extracted from the culti...

BACKGROUND Disruption of epithelial barrier integrity is important in the initiation and cause of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Glycoalkaloids, solanine (S), and chaconine (C) are naturally present in potatoes, can permeabilize cholesterol-containing membranes, and lead to disruption of epithelial barrier integrity. Frying potatoes concentrates glycoalkaloids. Interestingly, the prevalence ...

STUDY QUESTION What is the association between potato consumption before pregnancy and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)? METHODS This prospective cohort study included 15,632 women from the Nurses' Health Study II (1991-2001). They had no previous GDM or chronic diseases before pregnancy. Consumption of potatoes and other foods was assessed every four years. Incident first time...