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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Nutritional quality"”.
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Nutritional quality of lunches at a Seventh-Day Adventist school
… if lunches brought from home (LFH) provided more nutritional quality than combination lunches.</p> <p>This study showed that LFH (n=26) provided more overall nutrients for the students when compared with school-provided entrée lunches (n=1) and combination lunches (n=9). When comparing LFH with …
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Improving the safety and nutritional quality of pearl millet ogi-porridge
… for infants and adults in west Africa, but its nutritional quality is low, particularly in dietary fibre and protein contents. Unfortunately, poor nutrition quality and in some cases microbiologically unsafe fermented foods in Africa not only lead to gastrointestinal disorders, but also …
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Pearl Millet Nutritional Quality and Fertilization of Sweet Corn in Senegal
… base. Production of optimum sweet corn yield and quality depends on adequate nutrient supply, particularly, nitrogen (N). Current N recommendations are based on recommendations specific to corn for grain. This study aimed to identify tools to estimate sweet corn N status and determine the most …
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Agronomic management to simultaneously increase yield and seed nutritional quality of soybean
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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NUTRITIONAL QUALITY AND FOOD SAFETY OF FOOD SOURCES AND FOOD PROCESSING BY-PRODUCTS
… are becoming more and more important to meet nutritional requirements of the growing human population and simultaneously to reduce the negative impacts of food production on the environment. With the aim to boost the environmental sustainability, the valorization of byproducts is certainly one …
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Spatial patterns of wheat grain composition in relation to nutritional quality and processing properties
The quality of wheat-based food. products, especially bread quality, is significantly affected by the characteristics of the wheat flour, both in term of processing quality and nutritional value. White flour, by far the most used flour in breadmaking, derives from grinding of the grain starchy …
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Effects of genetic selection and processing of soybeans and soybean meal on nutritional quality
… and processing of soybeans and soybean meal on nutritional quality when fed to pigs. The objectives of Exp. 1 and 2 were to determine standardized ileal digestibility (SID) of AA, and the DE and ME in de-hulled conventional full fat soybeans (FFSB-CV), high-protein full fat soybeans (FFSB-HP), …
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Studies of the nutritional quality of commercial ‘ready to eat‘ infant foods in the United Kingdom
… development. Hence, during this period of life nutritional requirements are at their highest in relation to body mass. There is a paucity of data with respect to the nutritional quality of complementary foods manufactured in the UK for infants and young children. The primary objective of this …
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Influence of feeding-location on nutritional quality for cochineal insects (Homoptera : Dactylopiidae) on Opuntia ficus-indica (Cactaceae)
… on the exposed surface of the cladode. The nutritional quality of the plant was investigated as a possible explanation for the disparity in size. Phloem sap was collected from the severed stylets of cochineal insects and analysed for polyphenols (which inhibit growth) and amino acids …
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Eating-out: A Study of the Nutritional Quality of Canadian Chain Restaurant Foods and Interventions to Promote Healthy Eating
… outset of this thesis there were no data on the nutritional quality of Canadian chain restaurant foods, the Sodium Working Groupâ s plan to monitor sodium reductions in the food supply was abandoned, and despite interest and numerous bills, there was no existing menu-labelling legislation in …
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The impact of moisture-induced aggregation of soy protein isolate and hydrolysate during storage on product and nutritional quality
… there is a decrease in processability, product quality, and consumer acceptability. It is therefore necessary to characterize the covalent and non-covalent interactions involved in moisture-induced aggregation as well as their reaction kinetics to aid in the development of technologies to limit …
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Management and nutritional quality of tall fescue and alfalfa grown in combination, compared to tall fescue fertilized with nitrogen
… block pasture experiment with four replications. Quality and yield of stockpiled forages and performance and serum minerals of grazing steers were investigated during 1991-92 and 1992-93. Effects of grazing and timing of initiation of stockpiling forages were investigated during autumn of 1992. …
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CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVING THE NUTRITIONAL QUALITY OF FOODS AVAILABLE IN SCHOOLS: THE CASE OF SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
… have met in their attempts to improve the nutritional components in meals served in schools. This thesis uses the case of San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) located in California, United States of America, as an opportunity to investigate the key challenges in the process of …
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Effects of anthropogenic and natural disturbance on sedimentary organic matter quantity, nutritional quality and degradation in river, lagoon, and coastal marine ecosystems
… matter (OM) quantity, biochemical composition, nutritional quality, and C degradation rates, with the aim of exploring the magnitude and direction of changes in the benthic trophic status of river, lagoon, and coastal marine ecosystems through experiments carried out in the field or in …
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The nutritional quality of the diet of 18th century Moravians (1775-1800) in Salem, North Carolina: a comparison of present dietary trends
History can be used as a way of studying the nutritional adequacy of past diets. The Moravians of Salem, North Carolina, were the focus of this study. Various documents were examined to gather information on the crops grown, foods eaten and daily lifestyle. Seasonal diets (spring, summer, fall, …
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The Effect of Meal Preparation Time on Food Expenditure and Nutritional Quality of Menus in Family Child-Care Homes in King County, Washington
… examined the effect of meal preparation time on nutritional quality and food expenditure in the general population, and no studies have assessed this relationship in child-care settings. <bold>Objective:</bold> To investigate the association between meal preparation time and food expenditure and …
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Empirical analyses of the social safety net
Chapter 1: Food Pantry Policies and Nutritional Quality: Applying the Healthy Eating Index to Food PantriesFood pantries are a significant source of food support for families suffering from food insecurity in Minnesota, but studies have found shortcomings in the nutritional quality of the bundles …
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Are Chemical Defenses Allocated within Sponges to Defend Regions Most at Risk to Predator Attack?
… tissue, 2) positively correlated with tissue nutritional quality, 3) negatively correlated with sponge structural components, and 4) varied enough to have differential effects on predator deterrence. The concentrations of chemical defenses varied within Ircinia felix and Aplysina fulva, but …
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The role of geophytes in stone age hunter-gatherer subsistence and human evolution in the greater cape floristic region
… archaeological methods. It was found that the nutritional quality of geophytes is high, even in comparison to domesticated crops such as potatoes. The desirability of geophytes to a forager would rely on many factors, apart from nutritional quality, however. Geophyte resources on the coastal …
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Genome composition of Glycine max and sequence diversity among cultivated and exotic accessions
… and indirect ways has vastly increased the nutritional quality of low cost and plant-based diets. Therefore an enormous amount of effort has gone into increasing the yield and nutritional quality of soybeans through plant breeding over hundreds of years. Despite this economic and nutritional …
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