Whereas public information campaigns have failed to reverse the rising trend in obesity, economists support food taxes as they suggest they can force individuals to change their eating behavior and make the agro-food industry think more about healthy food products. Excise taxes based on the unhealthy nutrient content would be more effective since they impact more on unhealthy food products than...

When used to assess the nutrient content of diets, recipes, or commercial food products, a nutrient database should provide a complete nutrient profile for each food in the database. Chemical analyses for a wide range of nutrients in the many foods included in a database are not always practical. Therefore, some nutrient values must be estimated. Common methods for estimating nutrient values in...

based on the date obtained through food consumption surveys conducted by the institute of nutrition and food technology research (during 1991-95), the dietary quality of seven provinces (eastern azerbaijan, isfahan, tehran, khorasan, khouzestan, sistan-baluchestan and fars) was assessed. using allowances figures for developing countries, single value nutrient density (s.v.n.a.) was designed for...

Nutrition is complex-and seemingly getting more complicated. Most consumers are familiar with "essential nutrients," e.g., vitamins and minerals, and more recently protein and important amino acids. These essential nutrients have nutrient reference values, referred to as dietary reference intakes (DRIs) developed by consensus committees of scientific experts convened by the Institute of Medicin...

Ash application influences availabilities of plant micronutrients either directly through addition of its miEnergy generation from biomass is an environmentally sound altercronutrients constituents or indirectly through the modinative to other energy producing technologies. Pilot studies have indicated that alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is a suitable feedstock for fication of soil pH. Increased ...