seasonal variation of fatty acids composition of milk and various milk products have been subjected to many investigations.however ,most of the researches are concerned with a single product and apparantly there is no inforation about the extent and the factors which contribute to changes in fatty acids composition of lipids in the process of ghee-making by the  traditional methods.thus compara...

Trametes hirsuta (GenBank Accession Number: AB429065.1), a basidiomycete fungus was used for the production of laccases using different carbon sources namely glucose, sawdust, rice bran and wheat bran. Use of organic medium (agricultural/industrial wastes) is aimed to bring down the cost of media. Among these four carbon sources, the best laccase production was obtained in sawdust followed by w...

Edible oils have different effects on lipid profiles and on the propensity for producing lipid peroxidation products. These two properties of edible oils can affect arterial structure, ultimately leading to atherosclerosis. Hypertension is said to be a predisposing factor for atherosclerosis and can accelerate its process. This paper investigates the effects of three edible oils, namely soya be...

3. Punjabi Food.-(a) Thick wheat chapatti with a lot of ghee (butter fat). (b) Dal urd (Phaseolus mungo) is made as a thick viscous curry with spices and chillies and a lot of ghee. (c) Rawan (Vigna sinensis) is made as thick curry after frying the beans ; all the ingredients have a neutral reaction in vitro and no groupspecific substances. Punjabi food is taken simmering hot and requires a goo...

Desi Ghee was thermally oxidized at 160°C for 9 h and characterized for peroxide value (PV), free fatty acid (FFA), thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS), radical scavenging activity (RSA), and fatty acid and cholesterol composition using GC-MS. Oxidized (OG) and normal ghee (NG) were fed to rabbits in different doses. Blood was collected for hematology and biochemical analyses after ...

All children attending the Aseer Central Hospital (the only tertiary hospital in Aseer region, southwestern Saudi Arabia) with lobar pneumonia (315 children) during the period from January 1987 to December 1999 were studied. Out of these, forty-five children were found to have ghee lipoid pneumonia (diagnosed by oil red 0 stain). All of them were given oral and/or nasal administration of ghee f...