The banana is not just the world's favourite fruit--for many people it is a vital important source of food.
and aren't part of the food supply. It's possible to do this today but the process is costly laborious and lengthy.
because humankind depends heavily on it for food production says Bob Scholes who is a systems ecologist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
This narrow approach led to an unprecedented increase in food production but also contributed to global warming and the pollution of aquifers rivers lakes and coastal ecosystems.
To achieve lasting food and environmental security we need an agricultural soil ecosystem that more closely approximates the close and efficient cycling in natural ecosystems
and AB Agri the agricultural division of Associated British Foods to prove that Yeast Protein Concentrate (YPC) can be separated from the fibrous cereal matter.
A paper outlining this research is published in this month's issue of the journal Food and Energy Security.
One concern with bioethanol is the perception it will compete with food crops for limited farmland.
and rising obesity rates have led to numerous ideas for policies such as taxes on junk food
To better understand what influences food choices a group of Iowa State university researchers looked at how prices parents
if it is more expensive than other foods. Making fruits and vegetables more affordable and available can positively impact eating behaviors of parents
and abuse researchers did not find a similarly strong impact on healthful food choices. The underlying mechanism of the influence may be by example.
and may be exposed more to the parent's food consumption than to food choices made by their best friend.
and the potential benefits of intervention programs researchers analyzed several hypothetical scenarios that illustrate how changing the food choices of one group might affect the other.
Knowledge of how family and peer interactions and prices affect food consumption choices can help in designing effective policy interventions to facilitate healthy eating among vulnerable groups of young people Jensen said.
while others fell--in ACS'Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Ana Rodriguez-Mateos and colleagues note that eating blueberries is associated with several health perks including improved thinking reduced risk for heart disease and reduced inflammation.
Professor Martã n RÃ os states that asthma is caused an illness by several factors (genetic propensity environment food etc.
if more REDD+projects were to include community monitoring we would see a more just global effort to fight climate change that meaningfully incorporates insight from people who depend on forests for everything from their incomes to their food
Implications for soil fertility crop production and human health which was posted on October 10th by Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems.
Khan and his colleagues pointed out that KCL fertilization has long been promoted as a prerequisite for high nutritional value for food and feed.
This contaminates many common foods we eat--bread potatoes potato chips French fries--and some we drink such as beer.
Other recent work has shown that Perã's gold mining has contributed to widespread mercury pollution affecting the entire food chain including the food ingested by people throughout the region.
The food supply was so plentiful that salmon had high growth rates across habitats and management methods.
Each offers good food with hearty portions but one has better ambience and so is chosen above the others.
when we mimic natural flood processes in agricultural fields we give these fish a food-rich habitat they recognize
and potentially toxic food that existed for much of our evolutionary history said Galli. And so we're left with this residual type of reactivity that seems completely mysterious and pointless and harmful.
Though we need our food and energy crops their production has led to an increase in the levels of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus in our water sources.
when the fruits in your favourite food tree are gone and you don't know which other tree has produced new fruit yet?
The results suggested that their monitoring was guided by a long-term what-where memory of the location of large potential food trees.
which of nearly 16000 potential food trees with different crown sizes were approached actually by the chimpanzees.
or conventional food is a multimillion dollar gamble within the food sector. A novel paper by Washington state University college of Business researchers will help advertisers more effectively target the fast-growing organic food market.
and the Food and Drug Administration recommends against sharing milk obtained in that way. Recipients are not able to determine for sure
To understand the population bottlenecks during domestication researchers made a comparison analysis between vegetable and grain food crops.
and tomato) probably underwent narrower bottleneck events during domestication than the grain food crops (rice maize and soybean).
Enhancing expression of these genes resulted in vastly increased oil content in leaves the most abundant sources of plant biomass-a finding that could have important implications for increasing the energy content of plant-based foods and renewable biofuel feedstocks.
which right now is one of the highest oil-yielding crops used for food and biodiesel production said Xu.
-Reduce intake of foods with trans and saturated fats while increasing intake of monounsaturated fats such as avocados and olive oil-Lower intake of animal protein and add more vegetable protein to your diet-Add more fiber to your diet by consuming whole grains vegetables
and the U s. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) currently regards probiotics as food supplements not drugs.
The two strains of bifidobacteria used in the study were grown for UC Davis by a food-grade commercial facility to insure that the infants in the study would receive probiotics of known purity
Barley is the second most important cereal crop grown in the UK--used as animal fodder in human foods such as health foods soups
Gardens are more important than ever as a source of food for a wide variety of insects who feed on the nectar
Carbon dioxide is food for plants and putting more food out there stimulates them to'eat'more.
However just like humans eventually they get full and putting more food out doesn't stimulate more eating.
The researchers used the comprehensive Earth System Model (ESM2G) a climate-carbon cycle model developed by the National Oceanic
When you go from extensive agriculture to intensive agriculture you industrialize the production of food
The theme of this year's conference is Water Food Energy & Innovation for a Sustainable World (www. acsmeetings. org.
which could help scientists build an even better more healthful broccoli in ACS'Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry.
One of the most helpful food families includes cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli kale and cabbage. In fact eating broccoli regularly has been linked to lower rates of prostate colon breast lung and skin cancers.
In that super food glucosinolates (GSS) and the substances that are left when GSS are broken down can boost the levels of a broccoli enzyme that helps rid the body of carcinogens.
Ayca Gedikoglu a doctoral student studying food science in the MU College of Agriculture Food and Natural resources and Andrew Clarke associate professor of food science recently completed the first test on a citrus
%We believe that these genetically modified plants she explained could be a good alternative to food crops for producing biofuels
body-mass index waist/height ratio 26 food groups alcohol consumption leisure-time physical activity smoking.
It appears that the intake of some food groups is more beneficial (fruits legumes nuts seeds pasta poultry vegetable oil) or more detrimental (soft drinks butter margarine cake cookies) with respect to mortality risk
The team wanted to test its hypothesis that students exposed to the study would improve their diet quality due to healthier food environments.
Students in the intervention sample were given daily access to healthier school foods and weekly educational curriculum
food consumption of students in CHANGE schools was significantly different than students in the control schools with the following results:#¢
It could also find a market in food and beverage packaging. Tour and his colleagues at Rice
He said the material could help to solve longstanding problems in food packaging too. Remember when you were a kid you'd get a balloon
When we apply fertilizer in the United states only about 10 percent of the nitrogen makes it into the food.
The research published on Journal of Nutrition is the first to evaluate the total dietary polyphenol intake by using a nutritional biomarker and not only a food frequency questionnaire.
New biomarkers for nutritional studiesprofessor Cristina Andr s Lacueva head of the Biomarkers and Nutritional & Food Metabolomics Research Group of the UB and coordinator of the study explains that the development
According to the expert this methodology makes a more reliable and accurate evaluation of the association between food intake and mortality or disease risk.
--if possible--food intake by using nutritional biomarkers not only food frequency questionnaires. The Biomarkers and Nutritional & Food Metabolomics Research Group which participates in the project Fun-C-Food (Consolider Ingenion) collaborates actively with several national and international research groups.
It focuses its activity on the analysis of new more effective and sensitive nutritional biomarkers based on the bioavailabilty of bioactive compounds in food and their activity in order to associate the intake of certain foods (consumption markers) with their potential
effects on people's health. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Universidad de Barcelona.
and that the potential food value is high. This is good news for fruit growers in Saskatchewan as these results add further credence to support the development of these fruits for commercial food markets.
There is increasing interest in the commercial development of these fruits since historically it has been thought they may provide nutritional
As ingredients these materials can be used to improve the food value of traditionally prepared foods and as supplements for nutrient-poor populations.
and further develop these nutritive-rich ingredients is being sought from the recently established (2010) Global Institute for Food security (GIFS) says co-author of the study Dr. Nicholas Low a Professor of Food Chemistry at the Department of Food and Bioproduct Sciences University
or reversing global deforestation may only be possible if agricultural yields rise and/or per capita food consumption declines over the next century according to historic global food consumption and land use trends.
agricultural yield per capita food consumption and world population change over time. Based on historic trends that show growing food consumption outpacing rising agricultural yields global forest cover is predicted to decline about 10%further stabilizing at roughly 22%forest cover over the next century.
Unless new technological advances increase yields or strategies to decrease food consumption are introduced a switch to global reforestation remains unlikely.
Under an alternative scenario where food production and consumption stabilize reforestation could increase global forest cover to about 35
%if it occurs within the next 70 years. Additionally researchers found that short-term trends in reforestation deforestation
In response to the increasing demand for phosphorus in the food biofuels and biobased materials industries global consumption of phosphate has risen significantly
The theme of this year's conference is Water Food Energy & Innovation for a Sustainable World (https://www. acsmeetings. org/.
If you haven't eaten a morsel of food in three days of course a fishy odor might seem a good deal more attractive.
we need to understand much better than we now do the biological processes underlying food selection and preferences.
New research by neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) published in The Journal of Neuroscience reveals a set of cells in the fruit fly brain that respond specifically to food odors.
when the fly is presented different food odors--apple mango banana--predicts incredibly well how much the flies will given'like'a odor says the lead author of the research paper Jennifer Beshel Ph d. a postdoctoral investigator in the laboratory of CSHL
Professor Yi Zhong Ph d. We all know that we behave differently to different foods--have different preferences.
And we also all know that we behave differently to foods when we are hungry explains Dr. Beshel.
Is there somewhere in the brain that deals with food odors in particular? How does brain activity change
When Beshel and Zhong examined the response of neurons expressing a peptide called dnpf to a range of odors they saw that they only responded to food odors.
Moreover the neurons responded more to these same food odors when flies were hungry. The amplitude of their response could in fact predict with great accuracy how much the flies would like a given food odor--i e. move toward it;
the scientists needed simply to look at the responses of the dnpf-expressing neurons. When they switched off these neurons the researchers were able to make flies treat their most favored odor
One in three mouthfuls of our food depend on bee pollination said lead author Dr John Bryden from the School of Biological sciences at Royal Holloway.
Dr. Thilo Fischer Privatdozent at The chair of Plant Biochemistry and Physiology at LMU and Professor Wilfried Schwab of the Center for Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan at the Technische Universitã¤t
Several insect species suffer toxic effects from feeding on Se-contaminated food. In the case of the honey bee Se enters the body through ingestion of contaminated pollen and nectar.
Currently the researchers are conducting experiments feeding honey bee colonies with Se-laden food. They will monitor the bees for changes in survival and behavior.
And food production will need to increase by about 70%over the next 35 years to meet the needs of a growing population.
or happy or sad or are programmed we genetically to seek more food than we need?
and digestive systems over a period of four years nearly 1200 pigs were given unlimited access to food.
With the help of the Pig Research Centre from the Danish Agriculture and Food Council each day the pigs were monitored for how often they would eat how much time they spent visiting the feeder how much they had eaten and
what kind of food they were eating while constantly mapping their overall weight gain. Each of the 1200 pig's DNA was assessed using a genomic chip technology that simultaneously created a genetic profile at 60000 locations across the entire DNA of each pig.
That for a particular group of pigs there was clear evidence they were programmed genetically to eat more food than others.
and sometimes unhealthy) food and why some of us overeat so consequently developing obesity and diabetes both
#Fear of predators drives honey bees away from good food sourcesmost of us think of honey bees as having a bucolic pastoral existence--flying from flower to flower to collect the nectar they then turn into honey.
Such fear drives bees to avoid food sources closely associated with predators and interestingly makes colonies of bees less risk-tolerant than individual bees according to a study published in this week's issue of the open-access journal PLOS ONE.
This strategy of colonies collectively exhibiting significantly more caution than the riskier individual foragers may help honey bees exploit all of the available food sources with some intrepid foragers visiting more dangerous food
and can focus on sweeter food ones which bees prefer. So we also tested how bees would respond
when sweeter food was also more dangerous. What we found was that the individual bees were more risk-tolerant.
They avoided the giant hornet at the best food but continued to visit the lower quality food with the smaller hornet.
Other scientists involved in the research were Zongwen Hu Weiwen Chen Zhengwei Wang and Yuchong Wang all of the Eastern Bee Research Institute of Yunnan Agricultural University.
They are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for consumption as flavors or fragrances and are already being used as flavoring agents in some foods.
But now they can be applied to bed-nets clothes curtains--making them ward off insects. Using novel chemical informatics strategies Ray's lab screened half a million compounds against the DEET receptor to identify substitutes.
Of the four compounds three are approved already by the Food and Drug Administration as food additives.
and analyze data on the distributions of the wild relatives of 80 important food crops worldwide.
Although North america isn't known as a hotspot for crop plant diversity the inventory uncovered nearly 4600 CWR in the United states including close relatives of globally important food crops such as sunflower bean sweet potato and strawberry.
when we this research was how different nitrogen fertilizer supplements affected the overall soil organic matter composition says Dr. Adam Gillespie a postdoctoral fellow working with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC).
and scientists alike as they work to maximize the potential growth of food while maintaining healthy soils.
The animals show up expecting a food bonanza but they find that the cafeteria already has closed.
#Foods toxins that can cause cervical, liver cancermexican scientists identified and quantified the amount of aflatoxins (carcinogenic) in food such as corn tortilla rice chili pepper processed sauces chicken breast
and eggs and revealed its relationship with cervical and liver cancer in humans. The research won the National Award in Food Science
and Technology in the Science Professional in Foods category organized jointly by CONACYT (National Council of Science and Technology) and the Mexican Coca-cola Industry.
It explains that both types of cancer can be originated by the ingestion of food contaminated with aflatoxins produced by the fungi Aspergilus flavus and A. parasiticus.
Magda Carvajal Moreno from the Biology Institute at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and head of the research explained that this is the first time both conditions are related with the presence of aflatoxins the most frequent carcinogenic we ate daily she said.
She also studied how much of this substance stays in animal tissues after ingesting this kind of food
This research is the first in the world to report that cervical cancer can also be caused by ingesting aflatoxin contaminated food.
To avoid these substances the UNAM researcher suggests properly storing food which would control the production of the toxin.
Also vary the foods one ingests and preferably consume wheat tortilla and fish as well as antioxidants.
These initiatives are promoted by the PNCTA (National Award in Food Science and Technology. For more information visit www. pncta. com. mx (Agencia ID) Story Source:
A freely available food supplement could help in this respect scientists from ETH Zurich have demonstrated in roundworms.
A whole series of foods naturally contain niacin including meat liver fish peanuts mushrooms rice and wheat bran.
Gary Stacey an investigator in the MU Bond Life sciences Center and professor of plant sciences in the College of Agriculture Food and Natural resources found that crops such as corn are confused
When the bacteria interact correctly with a crop the bacteria receive some food from the plant and simultaneously produce nitrogen that most plants need.
and that have been shown to improve food availability environmental sustainability and human health. We're finding a chemical that is broadly utilized to behave in a way that is different from all our existing regulatory
and ethically sourced food including production without negative impacts on animal welfare the environment and the livelihood of poor producers.
Current cattle production mostly occurs on cleared pastures with only herbaceous plants such as grasses grown as food for the cows.
Additionally shrubs and trees with edible leaves and shoots along with pasture plants produce more food for animals per unit area of land than pasture plants alone.
Another success has been in Colombia where a mixed planting of the shrub Leucaena with a common pasture grass resulted in a 27%increase in dry matter for food and 64%increase of protein production.
which require extensive areas of continuous forest to be able to get enough food or avoid human persecution explains Brody Sandel.
#First look at complete sorghum genome may usher in new uses for food and fuelalthough sorghum lines underwent adaptation to be grown in temperate climates decades ago a University of Illinois researcher said he
systems for both food and fuel. Brown is working on the project through the Energy Biosciences Institute at the U of
They are looking at compounds that will prevent you from absorbing all the nutrition in your food in the small intestine he said.
The results of this work have been published recently in the journal International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition Nutriciã n hospitalaria and Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies.
and patented by the UPV team that allows incorporating additional ingredients to the structure of porous foods as in the case of fruits and vegetables.
and food supply of caiman thereby reducing the health of this predator. As long-lived species atop the food chain crocodilians provide an integrated assessment of the fate of pesticides in tropical areas
and the occurrence of this MRSA type in tank milk may be attributable to contamination from pig production explains Yvonne Agersã¸Senior Researcher at National Food Institute Technical University of Denmark.
But few know that these real caddiesflies spin an adhesive silk underwater to build nets to capture food and build protective shelter.
The potential and challenges of producing food in citiesin many cities around the world patrons of high-end restaurants want quality food that is flavorful and fresh.
You can't find fresher food anywhere says Sam Wortman assistant professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
As the concept of local food and urban gardening gains popularity urban agriculture with its benefits and obstacles is coming to many cities.
The issues surrounding food production in urban areas are outlined in a paper recently published by Wortman and Sarah Taylor Lovell in the September-October issue of Journal of Environmental Quality.
Urban food production also means that healthy fresh produce is readily available to city dwellers.
Practices such as washing food well before eating and covering soils with mulch can help decrease these risks.
and atmospheric states on food production Wortman and his colleagues have a project underway. They are looking at six sites on a gradient from downtown Chicago to 40 miles west of the city.
Finding more efficient ways to produce food in cities will help control costs. Research to increase both the productivity
but to anyone looking for local food options. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by American Society of Agronomy.
and even death in humans are spread by consuming contaminated food and water or by contact with livestock feces in the environment.
and food product recalls due to E coli O157 can cost hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Treating cattle in order to reduce the number of human cases certainly makes sense from a human health perspective
whether the diet and the intake of foods and nutrients are associated with the risk of depression in healthy individuals.
Junk food sugar and processed meats may increase depressive symptomsadherence to an unhealthy diet characterized by a high consumption of sausages processed meats sugar-containing desserts
and snacks sugary drinks manufactured foods French rolls and baked or processed potatoes was associated with an increased prevalence of elevated depressive symptoms.
Their diet was measured by food records and food frequency questionnaires and information on cases of depression was obtained from the National Hospital Discharge Register.
The effects of the three-year lifestyle intervention on depressive symptoms were investigated in the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study (DPS) with 140 middle-aged men
According to the U s. Food and Drug Administration nearly 80 percent of antibiotics in the United states are sold for use in livestock feeds.
while simultaneously making others more maize-friendly according to a new report prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central africa (ASARECA).
what is expected to be a series of consultations to consider how Kenya should proactively deal with food production challenges
so they can boost food production even as growing conditions change. The analysis also offers a mix of good news and bad news for another important food crop:
wheat. It shows a potential for wheat yields to fall in areas north of Mount Kenya and east of Mount Elgon while increasing in a small area of the Central Rift valley and neighboring Central Province.
One climate smart village established in 2011 in Western Kenya's Nyando Basin--one of the most food insecure regions of Kenya that is prone to droughts
Eventually they could be adopted by farmers throughout Kenya to boost overall food production even in the face of more difficult growing conditions.
Honeybees are one of the most important bee species in the world in terms of their contribution to food production through pollination.
and causing food supply problems if other benefits and disbenefits from revegetating agricultural landscapes are taken not also into account in land-use decisions according to an article published in the October issue of Bioscience.
The single-celled amoebas crawl through the soil eating bacteria until food becomes scarce. Then the amoebas gather by the tens of thousands to form a multicellular slug
It looked like the amoebas were carrying the bacteria around to make sure they would always have food.
when they picked up the food bacteria? Were they pathogens that were making the amoebas sick?
If food is abundant nonfarmers alone produce more spores than farmers alone. The reason is that farming is costly.
Farmers save roughly half the bacteria available to them forgoing considerable food to save some for dispersal at a new site.
however if food is scarce --if the amoebas are dispersed to a site without a good source--farmers produce more spores than nonfarmers
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