background: given the importance of vegetables in the food pyramid, their safety is very important from view point of public health. vegetable contamination by heavy metals can lead to bioaccumulation of these toxic and disease-causing elements in the body of consumers. therefore, in this study, the concentration of some heavy metals, including lead (pb), cadmium (cd), zinc (zn) and copper (cu)...

Soil is an essential resource for agricultural production. In order to investigate the pollution situation of heavy metals in soil-crop system e-waste dismantling area, crop and soil samples (226 pairs, including leaf vegetables, solanaceous root fruits) around area southeastern Zhejiang Province were collected. The concentrations Cd, Cu, Pb, Cr determined. average soils 0.94, 107.79, 80.28, 78...

we investigated the microbiological quality of raw vegetables in mashhad, iran. in order to document the incidence of indicator and pathogenic microorganisms in this area. ninety eghit raw vegetable samples collected during 7 months were analyzed. all samples were examined for the presence of aerobic mesophilic bacteria, coliforms, enterobacteriaceae, escherichia coli, escherichia coli o157:h7,...

today, the production of healthy and high quality seedlings is the main factors of success in growing vegetables such as tomato. hence, in order to investigate the effect of different levels of vermicompost and nitrogen on the growth parameters of tomato seedlings (lycopersicon esculentum mill. cv. rio grande), a factorial experiment was conducted in a randomized complete design with three repl...

 ABSTRACTBackground: 226 Ra and 228 Ra contents in foodstuffs of Ramsar which is a coastal city in the northern part of Iran were determined by gamma spectrometry. Measurement results together with food consumption rates were used to estimate annual effective dose from  226 Ra and 228 Ra, due to consumption of food stuffs by inhabitants of Ramsar city.Materials and Methods: A total of 33 sample...

BACKGROUND Little is known about how affordability of healthy food varies with community characteristics in rural settings. We examined how the cost of fresh fruit and vegetables varies with the economic and demographic characteristics in six rural counties of Texas. METHODS Ground-truthed data from the Brazos Valley Food Environment Project were used to identify all food stores in the rural ...

Abstract Red spinach is leafy vegetable containing a high concentration of carotenoid such as lutein, which shows benefits in anti-cancer and antioxidant to protect eye health from oxidative stress caused by cataracts age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Because the potential activity against disease, extraction obtain lutein this urgently needed. Generally, vegetables extracted leaf. This s...

This research analyses the longitudinal relationships between household food insecurity (very low and low food security) experiences and children's consumption (servings/week) of fruit, green salad, carrots, potatoes, and other types of vegetables. Using a panel of 5,670 children aged 10-13 years who were first observed in spring 2004 and then again in spring 2007 at age 13-16 years, the main f...