News tagged with food compounds
Genes culled from desert soils suggest potential medical resource
Despite their ecologic similarity, soils from three geographically distinct areas of the American southwest harbor vastly different collections of small, biosynthetic genes, a finding that suggests the existence of a far ...
May 21, 2012 |
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Pass the lycopene: Scientist can protect supplements inside food
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Purdue University food scientist has developed a way to encase nutritional supplements in food-based products so that one day consumers might be able to sprinkle vitamins, antioxidants and ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Why certain flavor combinations melt in your mouth
Do all cuisines thrive on kindred flavors? New research suggests that some cuisines may be based on combinations of dissimilar ingredients, but critics say the work is not filtering out flavors that may be ...
Dec 26, 2011 |
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Shared flavor compounds show up on US menus, rare in Asian cuisines
North Americans and Western Europeans love a good mix of alpha-terpineol, 4-methylpentanoic acid and ethyl propionate for dinner, flavor compounds shared in popular ingredients like tomatoes, parmesan cheese ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Reduced bone density, stunted growth in turtles exposed to common chemical
Manufactured until 1977, and banned by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1979, pentachlorobiphenyls (PCBs) are chemicals still commonly found in the environment because they break down slowly. Now, a ...
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Tests to catch the makers of dangerous 'legal high' designer drugs
Urgently needed tests which could help identify the manufacturers of designer 'legal high' drugs are being developed in research led at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Antibacterial effect of phenolic compounds from peat moss and the polysaccharide chitosan
The polysaccharide (sugar substance) chitosan has a documented antibacterial effect. Hilde Mellegard's doctoral research shows that this antibacterial activity varies according to the chemical composition ...
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Old fruit peel are the new healthy snacks
Japanese food researchers Noriham Abdullah, Marina Zulkifli, Mohd Hilmi Hassan, Wan Nur Zahidah Wan Zainon and Nur Ilmiah Alimin have developed a new healthy snack out of fruit peels to fulfil a growing need ...
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Blueberry's effects on cholesterol examined in lab animal study
Laboratory hamsters that were fed rations spiked with blueberry peels and other blueberry-juice-processing leftovers had better cholesterol health than hamsters whose rations weren't enhanced with blueberries. That's according ...
May 31, 2011 |
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Temperature, humidity affect health benefits of green tea powders
The beneficial compounds in green tea powders aren't as stable as once thought, according to a Purdue University study that will give industry guidelines on how to better store those powders.
May 18, 2011 |
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Ready-to-eat meat products contain few cancerous compounds: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- If given the choice between eating a hot dog or enjoying some rotisserie chicken, consider the hot dog.
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Roasting coffee beans a dark brown produces valued antioxidants: food scientists
Food scientists at the University of British Columbia have been able to pinpoint more of the complex chemistry behind coffee's much touted antioxidant benefits, tracing valuable compounds to the roasting process.
Feb 02, 2011 |
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A greener path for the production of a vital chemical
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoparticles of gold and palladium (Au-Pd) could lead to a more efficient and environmentally friendly way of producing benzyl benzoate, a chemical compound used widely in the food, pharmaceutical ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 14, 2011 |
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Where's the Gulf oil? In the food web, study says
(AP) -- Scientists say they have for the first time tracked how certain nontoxic elements of oil from the BP spill quickly became dinner for plankton, entering the food web in the Gulf of Mexico.
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Scientist Creates Sunscreen from Ivy
Drive through the University of Tennessee in Knoxville on a sunny day, and you may see a man on the side of the road pruning the English ivy.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 03, 2010 |
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