Dietary guidelines emphasize selecting lean (low-fat) meats to reduce saturated fat and cholesterol, but growing evidence suggests that health effects may relate to other ingredients, such as sodium, heme iron, or L-carnitine. Understanding how meats influence health, and on which nutrients this relationship depends, is essential to advise consumer choices, set guidelines, and inform food refor...

Bacteriocins are ribosomally synthesized peptides or proteins with antimicrobial activity, produced by different groups of bacteria. Many lactic acid bacteria (LAB) produce bacteriocins with rather broad spectra of inhibition. Though these bacteriocins are produced by LAB found in numerous fermented and non-fermented foods, nisin is currently the only bacteriocin widely used as a food preservat...

The aim of this study is to estimate dietary intake of benzoic acid and its salts through food additives in adult population of South East Serbia. Information on dietary intake among 620 adults (aged 18-65) was collected using a food frequency questionnaire, and 748 food samples were analyzed. The mean estimated intake of benzoic acid -0.32 mg/kg of body weight (bw) per day was below acceptable...

Nisin is a bacteriocin produced by microbial fermentation of the well-known starter culture for dairy products, Lactococcus lactis. A major challenge in food safety and security prevention emergence unwanted microbes. Artificial preservatives added to prolong shelf life foods may have negative effects on consumer health. An alternative approach use bio-preservatives. However, cost production ni...

there are various methods for the analysis of potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate in food products, but a rapid and reliable method for identification of these preservatives in doogh (an iranian traditional dairy drink) is a procedure, in which high performance liquid chromatography (hplc) utilized and followed by uv diode array detection of the two preservatives. the aim of this case study w...

Multi-drug resistant bacteria (particularly those producing extended-spectrum β-lactamases) have become a major health concern. The continued exposure to antibiotics, biocides, chemical preservatives, and metals in different settings such as the food chain or in the environment may result in development of multiple resistance or co-resistance. The aim of the present study was to determine multi...