BACKGROUND Proximity of food stores is associated with dietary intake and obesity; however, individuals frequently shop at stores that are not the most proximal. Little is known about other factors that influence food store choice. The current research describes the development of the Food Store Selection Questionnaire (FSSQ) and describes preliminary results of field testing the questionnaire....

The study established a BP neural network prediction model to test the effect of the application to predict the food safety Index. The GA was used to optimize the weights and thresholds of BP neural network. The theoretical analysis and experimental results prove that the BP neural network prediction is feasible for the food safety Index. The index prediction has some value in the field of food...

Food physical chemistry is considered to be a branch of Food chemistry[1][2] concerned with the study of both physical and chemical interactions in foods in terms of physical and chemical principles applied to food systems, as well as the applications of physical/chemical techniques and instrumentation for the study of foods.[3][4][5][6] This field encompasses the “physiochemical principles of ...

Food composition tables available in many countries can help field workers identify good, local sources of nutrientrich foods. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s website (www.fao.org/infoods) lists countries or regions with food composition tables. The nutrient content of specific quantities of most foods can be calculated using the nutrient database on the United States Department of Agri...

Nanotechnology applications in food and agriculture is in its nascent stage and over the next decade we will see increasing uses of tools and techniques developed by nanotechnology to detect carcinogenic pathogens and biosensors for improved and contamination free food and agricultural products. Here we discuss some of these applications that has a potential for wider acceptance in the field of...

Book’s topicOne of the most important challenges in modern food analysis is the research of new reliable sample preparation methods. In fact, traditional and automated procedures can ensure reliable results on condition that sample pretreatment methods are fast, accurate, precise, and able to maintain the integrity of extraction processes. The book New trends in sample preparation techniques fo...

Press perturbations, in which one or more species densities are experimentally altered and held at higher or lower levels, are common field approaches used to understand community dynamics. The outcomes of such experiments are often difficult to anticipate solely on the basis of intuition. This is because the effects of a perturbation may pass through a complex network of direct and indirect pa...

Pulsed electric field (PEF) is an innovative non-thermal technology which could be used as an alternative to the traditional thermal process to inactivate the microorganisms and enzymes in liquid foods such as milk. Compared to thermal processing, the PEF process is considered more energy efficient as the microbial or enzymatic inactivation is achieved at ambient or mild temperatures by the app...

in order to achieve the research objectives, the determinants of framework for assessing the sustainability of food supply chains, literature reviewed and then sustainability assessment framework of food and agriculture organization (fao) introduced as a research basic model. localization and verification of research criteria by using the delphi technique and calculation the importance degree o...

background food and nutrient are known as main environmental risk factor of esophageal cancer. we investigated food items consumption pattern of people who live in high risk area in golestan province. materials and methods we investigated food consumption pattern of more than 30 years old gonbad and kalale's people who recruited in golestan cohort study. assessment carried out with validated 11...