Milk is an essential food for children and it clear that the best source of nutrition babies breast milk. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends infants be exclusively breastfed first six months life. However, some may need complementary milk during early life or weaned reason. Although not possible to produce same product as milk, attempts have been made imitate nutritional characteris...

The mechanical and physical characteristics have great impact on the shell shucking of walnut. Taking the shucking force as the evaluation indicator, the effects of mechanical and physical characteristics, which include the loading orientation, loading rate, moisture content and walnut partical size, on walnut shucking were investigated by means of single factor test. The results show that: 1) ...

Introduction: Lipid oxidation, including LDL oxidation, plays a pivotal role in development of atherosclerosis. Supplementing diet with antioxidants, such as vitamin E and walnut husk hydroalcoholic extract, may prevent LDL oxidation. In the present study, we investigated the in vitro effects of walnut husk hydroalcoholic extract on serum LDL oxidation caused by copper sulfate. Method: Blood sa...

This study evaluated the protective effect of different dietary ω-6/ω-3 ratios in oils obtained from various nuts (walnut, peanut, cashew, and hazelnut) against morphological features markers inflammation on an adjuvant-induced arthritis rat model. Rheumatoid (RA) was induced via intradermal injection heat-killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Five groups rats with RA (n = 5) were randomly categor...

This rooting study was set up to compare Paradox walnut softwood cuttings from trees which had been: a) propagated through tissue culture, and b) from conventionally grown trees (seedlings). A number of studies on rooting of both hardwood and softwood cuttings of walnut trees have been made by various workers. Although it was reported by Lee, et. al. (1) and others that 100%rooting was obtained...

Aspects of the susceptibility of English walnu~ to infection by Xanthomonas campestris pv. juglandis, the bacterium which causes walnut blight, were investigated. Leaves of 15 mature English walnut trees were inoculated with the bacterium which causes walnut blight, and after 35 days each cultivar was rated for infection severity. During the following dormant season, the buds associated with th...

Redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleboros glabratus Eichhoff, is a native of Southeast Asia recently established in coastal forests of Georgia, SC and Florida. It vectors a wilt fungus, Raffaelea sp. , lethal to redbay trees, Per-sea borbonta L. Spreng. and certain other Lauraceae. No practical monitOring system exists for this beetle so we conducted studies to identify host attractants and develop lur...

Studies consistently show the beneficial effects of eating nuts, but as high-energy foods, their regular consumption may lead to weight gain. We tested if daily consumption of walnuts (approximately 12 % energy intake) for 6 months would modify body weight and body composition in free-living subjects. Ninety participants in a 12-month randomized cross-over trial were instructed to eat an allott...