Plant-based milk products are ultra-processed food that enjoy a positive reputation as being safe, healthy, ethical, and sustainable. The present study is focused on these addresses the product brand managers of US retailers. A consumer survey explores factors explaining consumers’ preferences for commitment to plant-based other products. Environmental concerns, safety, health, sustainability c...

Long-term consumption of red meat has been considered a potential risk to gut health, but this is based on clinic investigations, excessive intake of fat, heme and some injurious compounds formed during cooking or additions to processed meat products. Whether intake of red meat protein affects gut bacteria and the health of the host remains unclear. In this work, we compared the composition of ...

Introduction 528 Method evaluation 528 Sample collection 530 Isolation methods 530 Preenrichment 530 Enrichment 531 Agar plates 531 Methods for bacterial counts 532 Pathogenic bacteria 533 Campylobacter 533 Clostridium perfringens 536 Listeria 536 Salmonella 537 Spoilage microorganisms 538 Mesotrophic bacteria 538 Psychrotrophic bacteria 539 Yeasts and molds 539 Application of molecular techniq...

This study reports on the molecular identification of fish species from processed products which had a priori been classified as belonging to 5 important species in Iran for human consumption. DNA barcoding using direct sequencing of an approximately 650bp of mitochondrial Cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene revealed incorrect labeling of Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel samples. High occurre...

Primary and further processing of poultry is a multibillion dollar industry in the US. The majority of poultry raised and commercially processed in the US is composed of chickens, turkeys, and ducks, with more than 9 billion birds processed in 2010 (Table 24.1). Total retail product weight exceeded 58 billion pounds, with an estimated retail value of $100 billion. The general process of turning...

Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) may play an important adverse role in process of atherosclerosis, diabetes, aging and chronic renal failure. Levels of N(epsilon)-carboxymethyllysine and fluorescent AGE values were estimated in two nutritional population groups--alternative group (vegetarians--plant food, milk products, eggs) and traditional group (omnivorous subjects). Vegetarians have a...

To successfully survive in plants, endophytes need strategies to avoid being detected by the plant immune system, as the cell walls of endophytes contain easily detectible chitin. It is possible that endophytes "hide" this chitin from the plant immune system by modifying it, or oligomers derived from it, using chitin deacetylases (CDA). To explore this hypothesis, we identified and expressed a ...