BACKGROUND An important consideration in determining the ability of fortified food-aid commodities to meet the nutritional needs of beneficiaries is the manner in which commodities are utilized and prepared and the degree to which micronutrient losses occur during handling and cooking by the beneficiaries. OBJECTIVE A field study was conducted in Uganda, Malawi, and Guatemala to obtain data o...

background and objectives: although cooking makes fish palatable and can reduce spoilage by retarding enzymatic and bacterial reactions, it can also cause quality deterioration by losing the mineral, vitamins and etc. that are dependent on type of cooking. therefore the different cooking methods should be evaluated to achieve a good procedure.   materials and methods: the 4 common cooking metho...

Antibacterial drugs used in animal might result in deposition of residues in meat, milk and eggs. The presence of antimicrobial residues in animal-originated food is critical problem in many countries over the years. Because, drug residues might result in various health hazards, both actual incidence of reactions and potential hazards perceived by the public, the most countries assess residue o...

Comparative effects of extrusion cooking and conventional processing methods (cooking and autoclaving) on anti-nutritional factors and subsequent effects on in vitro and in vivo digestibility of Vicia ervilia in broilers were investigated. Treatments had significant effect (P

comparative effects of extrusion cooking and conventional processing methods (cooking and autoclaving) on anti-nutritional factors and subsequent effects on in vitro and in vivo digestibility of vicia ervilia in broilers were investigated. treatments had significant effect (p

to introduce a new rice cultivar with high grain yield and desirable cooking characteristics for the warm regions of kohgilouyeh-ve-boyrahmad province, 203 lines of rice originated form irri breeding program were evaluated in preliminary and advanced yield trials from 1993 to 2000 in choram agricultural research station. in each year, data were recorded from different agronomical and morpho-phy...

introduction: grass carp (ctenopharyngodonidella, family cyprinidae) is one of the main fresh water fish species and highly demanded aquaculture species in iran. among the cultivated fish, grass carp, also called farmed white fish, has received great attention because of its similarity to caspian white fish in iran. the muscle of fish contains important levels of nutrients which are beneficial ...

corn tortiilas are flat breads made from corn dough (masa) which is prepared through the nixtamalization process (alkaline cooking). corn, in nixtamalization, is cooked in a lime solution then the boiled maize is steeped in cooked liquor , following by washing out and milling to obtain wet masa flour. drying wet masa flour in air oven produce dry masa flour. cooking temperature, cooking time , ...

Background: Street foods have gained popularity around the world in the past few decades. The current study was carried out in order to quantitative analysis of used cooking oils by Street Food Vendors (SFVs) of Lahore, Pakistan. Methods: Fifty samples of cooking oil used by SFVs were collected. Also, a questionnaire was designed for qualitative assessment that revealed maximum vendors used ve...

In this paper, we propose the concept of synthesizing a multimedia cooking recipe from a text recipe and a database composed of video clips depicting cooking operations. A multimedia cooking recipe is a cooking recipe where each cooking operation is associated with a corresponding video clip depicting it, aimed to facilitate the understanding of cooking operations. In order to synthesize such a...