BACKGROUND Daily fruit and vegetable consumption in black men is low and has remained relatively unchanged during the past 20 years. OBJECTIVE To examine awareness of fruit and vegetable recommendations promoted by federal agencies and correlates of fruit and vegetable consumption among an urban and mostly immigrant population of adult black men. DESIGN A cross-sectional study analyzing bas...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Low consumption of fruit and vegetable is frequently viewed as an important contributor to obesity risk. With increasing childhood obesity and relatively low fruit and vegetable consumption among Thai children, there is a need to identify the determinants of the intake to promote fruit and vegetable consumption effectively. SUBJECTS/METHODS This cross-sectional study was...

background: obesity is growing rapidly in our country. nutrition is an important associate of obesity. the aim of this study was to determine the association between fruit and vegetable intake with the waist circumference and the body mass index (bmi) among young female university students.   methods: this cross sectional study was conducted on 236 healthy female university students aged betwee...

aim: evidence indicates that demographic factors such as age, gender, and mother's literacy are important predictors of fruit and vegetable consumption among adolescents. so, this study was conducted in order to survey the relation between socio-demographic factors and fruit and vegetable consumption among tehranian adolescents in 2013. methods: this cross-sectional study (descriptive-analytic)...

because of endemic parasitological infectious diseases in iran and contaminated vegetables, as one of the most important ways of contamination, carried out a parasitical study on 263 vegetable samples from 44 farms in the suburbs of tehran city, and also 166 vegetables samples from 20 green grocery markets in the same city. from 263 samples of farms 147 cases (65%) of contamination were recorde...

Using acid-catalyzed degradation in the presence of cysteamine, the condensed tannins from Lithocarpus glaber leaves were characterized, following thiolysis, by means of reversed-phase HPLC, 13C-NMR and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) analyses. The thiolysis reaction products showed the presence of the procyanidin (PC) and prodelphinid...

Low molecular weight phenols of Tannat red wines produced by Traditional Maceration (TM), Prefermentative Cold Maceration (PCM), Maceration Enzyme (ENZ) and grape-Seed Tannins additions (ST), were performed and discussed. Alternatives to TM increased wine phenolic contents but unequally, ST increased mainly smaller flavans-3-ol, PCM anthocyanins and ENZ proanthocyanidins (up to 2250 mg/L). Howe...

A comparison between heavily browsed and non-browsed Juniperus pinchotii trees revealed that, in contrast to the recent J. ashei study (Adams et al., 2013), the percentage of total volatile leaf oil yields were not significantly different (P > 0.05) between non-browsed trees (1.08%, DM-basis) and browsed trees (0.94%, DM basis). Only one terpene in the mg/g data, α-pinene, was significantly dif...

The plant phenolic compounds such as flavonoids, tannins and phenolic acids appeared to be strong antiradical and antioxidant compounds. The number of hydroxy groups and the presence of a 2,3-double bond and orthodiphenolic structure enhance antiradical and antioxidative activity of flavonoids. The glycosylation, blocking the 3-OH group in C-ring, lack of a hydroxy group or the presence of only...

Improving the suboptimal vegetable consumption among the majority of Australian children is imperative in reducing chronic disease risk. The objective of this research was to determine whether there was a relationship between food security determinants (FSD) (i.e., food availability, access, and utilisation dimensions) and adequate vegetable consumption among children living in regional and rem...