< Cooking can generate appreciable aerosol within the area where cooking takes place. < Cooking aerosol is largely within the respirable size range. < Fatty acids and dicarboxylic acids are major components. < Other constituents are alkanones, alkanals, lactones, PAH, sterols and alkanes. < Raw food, cooking oil, cooking style and temperature affect aerosol composition. a r t i c l e i n f o

Four vegetables brinjal, bitter gourd, colocasia and tomato were subjected for total protein, crude fiber, ash calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, ascorbic acid and folic acid contents in raw peeled raw cooked and peeled cooked forms. Losses of nutrients due to peeling and cooking were determined. The loss of protein was non-significant during peeling and was significant during cooking e...

Corn bran was subjected to high-shear and jet-cooking with or without alkaline treatment. The highest antioxidant activity was found in the soluble solids from jet-cooked corn bran without alkaline treatment. Jet-cooking under alkaline conditions resulted in a soluble fraction having the highest phenolic content but without increasing antioxidant activity. Phenolic contents of soluble solids we...

Iodine is an essential micronutrient. The human requirement of iodine is 150 mcg/ day. About 90% of this comes from food while 10% from the water. The most commonly used method of prophylaxis against iodine deficiency is via fortification of salt with iodine. At the beneficiary level iodised salt containing 15ppm of iodine is supplied. However, very few studies have been conducted to assess the...

We are trying to integrate television cooking videos with corresponding cookbooks. The cookbook has the advantage of the capability to easily browse through a cooking procedure, but understanding of actual cooking operations through written explanation is difficult. On the other hand, a video contains visual information that text cannot express sufficiently, but it lacks the ease to randomly br...

For this study 48 non-infected muscle, lymphatic and visceral bovine tissue samples were collected from an approved red meat abattoir and spiked with 8 x 10(7) cfu/ml of M. bovis. The different spiked samples were subjected to cooking and drying (drying through the process of biltong-making) processes in a controlled laboratory environment. Mycobacterial isolates confirmed as M. bovis by means ...

A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the potential factors of food-hygiene practices of mothers on the prevalence of diarrhoea among their children. Mothers who had children aged 6 months-5 years were recruited in a hamlet in Viet Nam. The food-hygiene practices included hand-washing, method of washing utensils, separation of utensils for raw and cooked food, and the location wh...

carotenoids are red, orange and yellow pigments, which are widely distributed in fruit and vegetables. the aim of this research is to investigate the effect of conventional, high pressure and microwave cooking on the concentrations of β-carotene in carrot and sweet corn. raw carrots were washed, peeled and diced to a uniform size and then frozen at -70°c. sweet corn was also provided in a simil...

Two long-grain rice cultivars/hybrids (‘Wells’ and ‘CL 161’) harvested from locations in Arkansas were used in this study. Rice samples were milled for 20, 30, 40, and 50 seconds. Milled whole-rice samples were cooked in excess water for 16, 18, 20, and 22 minutes and in a 2:1 water-to-rice ratio for 20 minutes (WR20). Cooked rice texture and solid leach were determined. Results indicated that ...

OBJECTIVE To compare effects of the Cooking With Kids (CWK) cooking and tasting curriculum (CWK-CT) with a less-intense, tasting-only curriculum (CWK-T) and to conduct a non-treatment comparison on fourth graders' cooking self-efficacy (SE), cooking attitudes (AT), and fruit and vegetable preferences (FVP). DESIGN Pre-post, quasi-experimental, 2 cohorts. SETTING Eleven low-income public sch...