OBJECTIVES To assess supply and nutritional composition of the salads offered as an entrée main course in the food courts of the shopping centers in Lima, Peru. MATERIALS AND METHODS The menus of all food franchises present in the food courts of the eleven shopping centers of Lima were reviewed. The nutritional composition of salads offered as an entrée were calculated for calories, protein c...

Seaweeds in general are known to contribute the maintenance of health through their nutritional and medicinal properties served soups salads, cooked with grains, legumes or miso-soup broth, vegetable pies, stews even consumed dried. The seaweeds vegetables have long been many cultures people particularly those living coastal regions who consuming these from centuries. Traditional Chinese dietot...

Introduction: Ready-to-eat (RTE) leafy vegetables have a natural leaf microbiota that changes during different processing and handling steps from farm to fork. The objectives of this study were (i) to compare the microbiota of RTE baby spinach and mixed-ingredient salad before and after seven days of storage at 8°C or 15°C; (ii) to explore associations between bacterial communities and the food...

Abstract Bicolor (Rosaline) and black (Regina) sweet cherry cultivars were treated with chitosan-Ca-lactate chitosan-alginate solutions. The chitosan coating is biocompatible, nontoxic possesses antimicrobial activity. sample series (five replicates of thirty pieces from each variety treatment, a control) refrigerated at 4 °C for 21 28 d, to the end shelf-life. Physical (visual sorting, weight ...

Wild rocket is a leafy vegetable with economic interest as consequence of baby leaf ready-to-eat salads. The climate crisis expected to influence wild production, but these effects could be confronted cultivation in greenhouses and plant factories artificial lighting (PFALs). Climate responses are related growing seasons. Our objective was test the impact two seasons, winter summer, on growth p...