Vegetables – Not So Difficult For Children To Swallow!
Vegetables and children need not be such a tricky combination! Parents don’t despair, children really do like them! It is a case of making sure […]
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Abscisic Acid in Plant Cell Culture
Abscisic acid (ABA) is a plant hormone that plays a crucial role in plant growth, development, and response to environmental stress. In plant cell culture, […]
Cytokinins and their Role in Plant Cell Culture
Cytokinins are a class of plant hormones that play a significant role in plant cell culture. They are involved in regulating cell division, growth, and […]
Quinoa – A New ‘Ancient’ Food
The Incas, many moons ago ate quinoa as a staple. To them this was the ‘mother grain’ or the ‘gold of the gods‘ as they […]
Pisco
In South America, especially Chile, Peru and Bolivia, there is a popular grape brandy called Pisco which also forms the mixer for other popular cocktails […]
Preserving Sauces
I often see requests for ways and methods of preserving sauces and pickles. Essentially it’s about creating hurdles to stop microbial contamination and then fermentation, especially […]
Antioxidant Methods And Measures
The measurement of antioxidant capacity is one of the key analytical measures in the assessment of food ingredients with potential health benefits. Many methods are available […]
Commercial Means To Delay Fruit Ripening: Use Of 1-methylcyclopropene
Unwanted fruit ripening is a major issue in the supply chain when delivering fruit to the perfect ripeness to the consumer. An agent that has […]
Mikania micrantha (Bitter Vine, Climbing Hemp, American Rope, Mile-A-Minute Vine)
The Bitter Vine is a tropical plant (Mikania micrantha: Family: Asteraceae) that grows vigorously in very high humidty, generally light or poor soils in all […]
Ivy Gourd (Coccinia grandis)
The Ivy Gourd (C. grandis L. Voigt; Family: Curcurbitaceae) – is a tropical climbing vine that has been used for many years in both Africa […]
Cellulose Nanofibres: An Important Recent Development In Nanomaterials
Cellulose is a natural carbohydrate polymer found in all plants and in algae, tunicates and even some bacteria (Henrisson and Berglund, 2007). As well as […]
Biochemical Understanding Behind Food Allergies
Allergies, especially food allergies have in recent years become a strong focus for research attention because they are so debilitating. Food allergies restrict food use, […]
How to do Lamb’s Liver and Onion Gravy with Hashed Potato and Peas
Ingredients: 500g lamb’s liver, trimmed and sliced 2 onions, sliced 2 garlic cloves, minced 2 tbsp plain flour 2 tbsp olive oil 2 tbsp butter […]
A Lycopene-Resveratrol Combo Helps Reduce Foot Ulcers In Diabetic Patients
If you combine resveratrol with lycopene you are bound to have a nutritional supplement with some serious ‘poke’. So it would appear that MedVitál® Bio-Resveratrol®, […]
Gelatin From Fish
Alternative sources of gelatin to those derived from cattle and pigs came to the fore following various issues and scandals worldwide, associated with their processing of […]
The Food Safety Issues Of Clostridium Perfringens
Clostridium perfringens is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, non-motile anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium. It produces a highly noxious enterotoxin and is a common cause of food poisoning. The bacteria frequently contaminates raw […]
How to make Vietnamese Cabbage Roll Soup
So you’ve not tried the Vietnamese cabbage roll soup before! It’s actually a refined and sophisticated way of making the cabbage a central part of […]
Pinolenic Acid
Pinolenic acid is a polyunsaturated fatty acid, 5Z,9Z,12Z-octadecatrienoic acid which is obtained from pine nut oil, derived from Korean (Pinus orientalis) and Siberian pine nuts […]
Chitinases
Chitinase (EC 3.2.1.14) – the enzyme needed to catalyse the breakdown of chitin, forms a key structural component of many living organisms. It is highly […]
New US Food Labelling Improves Understanding Of Nutrition
Food labelling anywhere in the world is a constant source of controversy. One element is whether consumers and shoppers actually understand what is written on […]