Ghana is an important cocoa producer and exporter this production of high economic importance. Increasing interest in the sustainable productions cocoa/chocolate necessitated need to assess environmental impacts associated with different chocolate variants (extra dark (EDC), (DC), milk (MC) flavoured (FMC) Ghana, including identification hotspots for improvement. The life cycle assessment tool ...

To evaluate the behavior of relevant microbial populations during stretched cheese production, quantitative microbiological analysis was performed critical steps preparation. The obtained data distributions proved statistically significant increases in all indicators, on average by 4.55 ± 0.64 log CFU/g presumptive lactococci counts, 4.06 0.61 lactobacilli, 1.53 0.57 coliforms, 2.42 0.67 Escher...

Packaged water consumption has grown rapidly in urban areas of many low-income and middle-income countries, but particularly in Ghana. However, the sources of water used by this growing packaged water industry and the implications for water resource management and transport-related environmental impacts have not been described. This study aimed to assess the spatial distribution of regulated pa...

An emulsion-type raw pork batter was prepared using 10% (meat weight) of backfat or commercial soybean oil enriched with vitamin E to determine the effect of irradiation on lipid oxidation and volatile production during storage. Batters (approximately 100 g) were vacuumor aerobically packaged and irradiated at 0, 2.5 or 4.5 kGy. Irradiation increased lipid oxidation of aerobically packaged raw ...

BACKGROUND There is evidence that dietary quality declines as children age in North America, but few studies have explored whether food environment exposures in secondary schools as opposed to elementary schools are associated with changes in students' school-day food choices. METHODS This study examined differences in dietary practices (at or en route to and/or from school) between students ...