The aim of the present study was to assess the principal food sources of energy and nutrients among Spanish children. We used a cross-sectional study design, based on results obtained from a food-frequency questionnaire. The sample included 1112 children, aged 6-7 years, from Cadiz, Madrid, Orense and Murcia, Spain. Children were selected through random cluster-sampling in schools. We analysed ...

Almond oil is used in many cosmetic products as a snack, in confectionery (marzipan, "turrón", nougat), food products (almond milk, ice cream, chocolate), culinary recipes and also cosmetic base. For surveying the effects of almond genotype and growing location on oil percentage of oil seed content and fatty acid of almond, seeds of 6 almond cultivars: Ferragnes, Tuono, Azar, Sahand, Nonpareil ...

Lipid oxidation has been long recognized as a major problem in the storage of fatty foods. Oxidative changes can result in repugnant flavors, in destruction of valuable numents and even in generation of toxic compounds. This reaction occurs by several molecular mechanisms which all channel to generation of oxygen-rich precursors of reactive, chain-propagating, free radicals. The complexity of t...

Research in my laboratory focuses on developing new microbial processes for adding functionality groups to plant lipids or their component fatty acids to produce value-added food and industrial products. The goal is to develop new products from surplus soybean oil or its component fatty acids through bioprocesses. Oxygenated fatty acids such as hydroxy-, keto-, epoxy-, and cyclic fatty acids ar...

Mild food restriction for 48 h inhibits mating behavior in female musk shrews (Suncus murinus). However, mating behavior is restored after a 90-min feeding bout. In this series of experiments, we examined the role of metabolic fuels in this behavioral restoration. First, drugs reported to block glycolysis or fatty acid oxidation were given 2 h before mating. Both treatments inhibited mating in ...

The ciliate Strombidium sulcatum was used to feed and grow young stages of the copepods Temora longicornis (Müller) and Pseudocalanus elongatus (Boeck). The ciliate was cultured in the laboratory using either bacteria or the green alga Dunaliella sp. as a food source. Young copepodites of both copepod species consumed S. sulcatum at significant rates, but after 3 d, weightspecific ingestion dec...

1Division of Medicine, Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Rudolf Virchow Hospital, Charité University Medicine, 13353 Berlin, Germany 2Lipid Clinic, Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité University Medicine, 13353 Berlin, Germany 3The Synergistic Innovation Center for Food Safety and Nutrition, State Key ...

Background In Japan, elderly people aged 65 and over account for more than one fifth of the nation’s population. To add to this, the number of aged households is increasing year by year. Because elderly people are preferential to have tender and non-fatty foods in general, they are prone to biased nutrition status. According to the result of a National Health and Nutrition Survey, the low weigh...

The study investigated whether intakes of fat and fatty acids are associated with the development of gastric cancer. A case-control study was conducted in the Clinical Centre Nis (Serbia) from 2005 to 2006. A total of 102 patients with histologically confirmed gastric cancer were compared with 204 controls chosen among the subjects admitted to the same hospital as cases of acute non-neoplastic ...

Populations are not meeting recommended intakes of omega-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 LCPUFA). The aim was (i) to develop a database on n-3 LCPUFA enriched products; (ii) to undertake dietary modelling exercise using four dietary approaches to meet the recommendations and (iii) to determine the cost of the models. Six n-3 LCPUFA enriched foods were identified. Fish was categori...