Nowadays, the transformation activity of food industry results in generation a huge amount daily discarded vegetables wastes. One those undervalued by-products are produced during post-harvesting and processing process artichokes. In present research, potential artichokes’ bracts stalks have been evaluated as natural source phenolic compounds which could be used bioactive ingredients, among oth...

Amir Mohammad Mortazavian1, Reza Mohammadi1 and Sara Sohrabvandi2 1Department of Food Science and Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 2Students Research Committee, Department of Food Science and Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research I...

Eating behaviour depends partly on food preference, which is itself determined by different types of emotions. Among the emotions generated by food, disgust with red meat is common in women and can lead to reduced meat consumption. We tested the hypothesis that low meat intake is related to different negative emotions towards meat but does not affect the emotions expressed towards other food ca...

manufacturers have found the great role of suppliers in achieving competitive advantages. in recent years, satisfaction of suppliers in supply chain has been considered in some researches. in fact, it is told that manufacturers and suppliers should cooperate in their activities and become each other’s trusted partners. this paper seeks to find the factors influencing a suppliers’ satisfaction. ...

Burgeoning consumer interest in organically grown foods has opened new market opportunities for producers and is leading to a transformation in the organic foods industry. Once a niche product sold in a limited number of retail outlets, organic foods are currently sold in a wide variety of venues including farmers markets, natural product supermarkets, conventional supermarkets, and club stores...

The growing concern of consumers regarding the food health and safety issues has led to the development of products that promote health and well-being beyond its nutritional effect [1]. Functional foods are those which promote beneficial effects to human ́s health beyond nutrition. Their effects are due to the addition of active ingredients, the removal or the replacement of undesirable compound...

OBJECTIVE Reduction in the current high levels of meat and dairy consumption may contribute to environmental as well as human health. Since meat is a major source of Fe, effects on Fe intake need to be evaluated, especially in groups vulnerable to negative Fe status. In the present study we evaluated the effects of replacing meat and dairy foods with plant-based products on environmental sustai...

This research was conducted to investigate the factors contributing to thefailure in the forestry and rangeland by-product cooperative companies in Lorestanprovince, Iran. A descriptive-correlative research design was used. The statisticalpopulations were 1100 people divided into two groups of experts from natural resourceagency in Lorestan province and members of cooperative companies. The sam...