Article history: Received: 14 February 2016 Accepted in revised form: 20 March 2016 ABSTRACT In recent years, Dioscorea opposita shares a bigger market as people pay more and more attention to health. Dioscorea opposita Thunb. cv. Tiegun is deeply favored by people as it has high edible value, medicinal value and nutritional value. Relatively concentrated harvest season of Dioscorea opposita Th...

Article history: Received: 15 November 2016 Accepted: 24 August 2016

Food science and technology education has been running since four decades in Nepal. There is a very slow improvement in the profession. The job opportunities have always been threatened by insiders and outsiders. Academic institutions, government agencies, and food industries themselves are responsible for the quality of food science professionals. Novel and practical methods of teaching should...

This article has no abstract.  DOI: 10.18502/jfqhc.6.4.1990  

Changes in our understanding of diet and health drive changes in the way foods are processed. Conversely, what is available on the shelf will have an impact on the choices consumers make, thereby affecting their health. Historical examples of industrial manipulation of the diet include fortification and enrichment of cereal grains with vitamins; increased production of unsaturated vegetable oil...

1School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, China 2Department of Nutrition & Food technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan 3Departmentof Food process Engineering, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Ethiopia 4Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Gezira, Sudan 5Department of Food Process...