Current Nutrition & Food Science - Volume 10, Issue 4, 2014

Obesity is associated with many complicated health problems, especially insulin resistance, type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and other metabolic disorders. Pharmacological treatments for obesity and T2DM with prolonged treatment duration have been losing their effectiveness. As a result, alternative treatments have gained momentum to treat such type of diseases. Now-a-days, research has been focused towards use of d Read More

The health promoting effects of probiotics have been well established. World Health Organization (WHO) advocates utilization of prophylactic and therapeutic potential of probiotics. Probiotics are live microorganisms (single/ mixed cultures) which impart multiple health benefits to the consumer animals or humans. Probiotics include different lactic acid bacteria (Lactobacillus sp.), Bifidobacterium, and the yeast Sacchar Read More

The adulteration of milk with melamine in China in 2008 caused worldwide alarm over the use of unwanted chemicals in food. The melamine waste polluted the soil and this further resulted in health hazards. This study investigated the hazards of melamine wastes which are used as fertilizers. A cultivation experiment was designed to determine the contents of melamine in the plants and soil where melamine had been used as a f Read More

The physicochemical characteristics of seed and oil of six varieties/lines of safflower cultivated in Iran and comparison of type and amount of oil and their classification to oleic (Saffola) or linoleic acid group were investigated. Varieties/lines of Iranian safflower including Goldasht (IL.III, a spring variety), Mahali Isfehan, Isfehan 14, Isfehan 28 (a spring line), Padide (LRV, a fall variety) and Sina (PI, a day land variety) were provided Read More

Aspartame is rapidly and completely metabolized in humans and experimental animals to aspartic acid (40%), phenylalanine (50%) and methanol (10%). Methanol, a toxic metabolite is primarily metabolized by oxidation to formaldehyde and then to formate these processes are accompanied by the formation of superoxide anion and hydrogen peroxide. This study focuses on whether the oral administration of aspartame (40 m Read More

Leucine supplementation exerts a positive effect on mTOR pathway that is involved in the synthesis of skeletal muscle protein. In the present study, the capability of a 15-day dietary leucine supplementation (310 mg/kg) to improve the performance in acute high intensity effort and the inductive capacity on skeletal muscle protein anabolism in rats submitted to swimming exercise with a 10% bodyweight load attached to the tail, Read More

Dietary deficiency of calcium is widespread, so supplements as therapeutics or prophylactics for skeletal development and osteoporosis are common. Supplements of iron, lower in the activity series, create oxidative stress (OS) in the gastrointestinal tract. Both elements interact, and Ca supplements inhibit short-term iron absorption. However, studies are lacking for longitudinal effect of short-term calcium supplementati Read More

The present study investigates the effect of consumption of coconut oil (CO) mixed with erucic acid rich rapeseeds which induced a significant change of blood serum lipids in rats. After 6 weeks of feeding to Wistar rats, body weight gain, food efficiency ratio (FER) and serum lipid profile such as Total cholesterol (TC), Triglyceride (TG), High density lipoprotein (HDL) and low density lipoprotein (LDL) were determined. Rapes Read More

Cooked beans of two wild legumes (Canavalia cathartica and C. maritima) were subjected to solid-substrate fermentation by Rhizopus oligosporus and bioactive potential has been compared with raw and cooked beans. Flavonoids and canavanine in raw beans were significantly decreased on cooking, while they were significantly enhanced in fermented beans. Phytic acid content was signficantlty decreased from raw vs. cooke Read More

The Leaf Protein Concentrate (LPC) was isolated from the leaves of Girardinia heterophylla found in the Mussoorie hills of Uttarakhand (India). Results of proximate analysis for nitrogen, protein, fat, ash and carbohydrate in appreciable quantities revealed its possible use as non-conventional protein source. LPC is an important characteristic, which establishes the usefulness of leaves of this plant as animal fodder for better mil Read More