Liliana François, Miriam L. Haaksma, Astrid S. M. van der Harst, L. Cristobal Monraz Gomez, MaartjeA . C. Schreurs, Roderick Gielis, Nick Vos, Renger Witkamp & Hans Verhagen·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2014
Aims: Grey literature covers all reports from public research institutes, which are not peer-reviewed scientific papers. The aim of this article is to explore the amount and extent of grey literature in the field of nutrition, health and food safety, the retrievability and the vi...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/8527
Exopolysaccharides (EPS) synthesized by lactic acid bacteria (LAB) play a major role in the manufacturing of fermented dairy products such as yoghurt, drinking yoghurt, cheese, fermented cream, milk based desserts. The demand of consumers for natural dairy products with a smooth...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/6948
Aims: The salty taste modality is modulated by epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) and Transient Receptor Potential Vanniloid (TRPV1) ionic channel and more recently, the gastric hormone ghrelin and its signaling system are also thought to play a role. Taste perception plays an impo...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/5906
Background: Fruit consumption helps to promote health and prevent chronic diseases. Adequate knowledge of the determinants of fruit intake is necessary in order to be more effective in promoting its intake among adolescents. Objective: This study aimed to examine the determinants...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/5087
Bioavailability of calcium, phosphorus and Zinc from probiotic dairy foods and other food sources has been an important issue of studies over recent years. The aim of the present study was designed to asses and to compare therapeutic effect of milk yoghurt and soy yoghurt contain...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/6856
Recent development of widely reported incidents of dangerous levels of pesticides in food, fertilizer contamination of ground water and the occurrence of livestock diseases attributable to the production methods of large scale agriculture have stimulated the demand for organic fo...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/6498
The German Nutrition Society publishes a national Nutrition Report on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection on a regular basis. Lastly the 12th Nutrition Report was published in December 2012. The Nutrition Report 2012 is an important instrum...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/7894
Background and Aim: The Dutch national food composition database (NEVO database) is used for all food and nutrition related work in the Netherlands. The database is managed at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. Recently the updated version of NEVO onlin...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/7663
Saskia De Pee, Rafael Flores-Ayala, Joris Van Hees, Maria Elena Jefferds, Laura Irizarry, Klaus Kraemer, Eva Monterrosa & Arnold Timmer·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2013
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/7804
Aim: This report deals with the generation of work examples using food consumption data from the Netherlands and Sweden to facilitate the understanding of probabilistic modeling of dietary exposure to pesticides by risk managers. Imaginary field trial residue data were invented t...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/6899