Areca nut, commonly known locally as Semen Arecae (SA) in China, has been used as an important Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years. The raw SA (RAW) is commonly processed by stir-baking to yellow (SBY), stir-baking to dark brown (SBD), and stir-baking to carbon dark (SBC) for different clinical uses. In our present investigation, intelligent sensory technologies consisting of compute...

background and purpose:consumption of baking soda, as a primary material for preparation of bread dough, has been banned due to its health complications in iran. so bread production in our country faced difficulties and one part of them is related to health issues which are bread production. also, in some cases, baking soda is used in the bread production. this study was done to study the envir...

The association between indoor smoke exposure due to traditional baking (baking homemade bread) and anthracosis has rarely been investigated. The aim of the present study is to quantify such association among the Iranian population. A hospital based case-control study was carried out on 83 anthracotic cases and 155 controls (83 individuals with non-anthracotic pulmonary disorders from the pulmo...

Grading factors associated with adverse growing conditions in Canada and the United States affect the edibility and end-use performance of common wheat. Mycotoxins are associated with fungal infections like fusarium head blight and ergot. Mycotoxins partition themselves among wheat milling products, and are relatively stable throughout wheat end-use processing. Fusarium head blight also has adv...

The reader is again referred to the first paper of this series (1) for full information regarding the general methods employed in the‘conduct of the experiments, the techniques used in analyzing the foods and excreta, and the procedures involved in the preparation of the diets. In all experiments, the diets consisted of mixtures of highly purified amino acids; wafers composed of starch, sucrose...