Children's taste sensitivity and food choices influenced by taste gene
Variation in a taste receptor gene influences taste sensitivity of children and adults, accounting for individual differences in taste preferences and food selection, report a team of researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center. In addition to genes, age and culture also contribute to taste preferences, at times overriding the influence of genetics. The findings may help to explain...A frog's life is food for thought
Starvation, malnutrition and re-feeding can have deadly consequences for humans and most animals but not Australia's green-striped burrowing frog. PhD student Rebecca Cramp from The University of Queensland has found that unlike most animals, which can't digest food after long periods of starvation, the green-striped burrowing frog is able to absorb nutrients 40 percent more effectively a...McGill researchers shed light on formation of carcinogen in food
Furan, a potentially dangerous chemical has been found by Health Canada and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in processed foods, especially canned or bottled foods. A new study by McGill researchers Dr. Varoujan Yaylayan and graduate student Carolina Perez Locas explains the presence of this chemical in a wide range of food products. The study, published in the October, 2004 is...Gray wolves maintain the food chain in winter
Climate change has already had dramatic effects on individual species, with disruptions in range, reproductive success, and seasonal phenomena like migration. But, in a new study from the open-access online journal PLoS Biology (www.plosbiology.org), Christopher Wilmers and Wayne Getz show that the impact of climate change on many different species in Yellowstone Park can be buffered by a top pre...Rhesus monkeys can assess the visual perspective of others when competing for food
Researchers Jonathan Flombaum and Dr. Laurie Santos, both from Yale University, have found that rhesus monkeys consider whether a competitor can or cannot see them when trying to steal food. Working with semi-free-ranging rhesus monkeys on the island of Cayo Santiago in Puerto Rico, Flombaum and Santos set up a food competition game: Lone monkeys were approached by two human "competitors....High interest forces delay in food safety symposium
A surge in interest in a conference on protecting the U.S. food supply from terrorism and natural disasters has led its organizers to postpone the event until spring from its original November dates. The was originally slated for Nov. 1-3 in downtown Milwaukee, with as many as 1,000 people expected from the Gr...LightCycler foodproof Beer Screening Kit
Breweries make continuous efforts to ensure the highestquality of their goods. To guarantee the consistency ofproduct quality, the different stages of beer production...Use of the DCode System to Detect the Food-Borne Bacterial Pathogen Listeria monocytogenes
Nikolaj Schmolker, Fintan van Ommen Kloeke and Gill Geesey, Departmentof Microbiology and Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University,Bozeman, MT 59717-3980 Amplification of a region of the 16S rRNA gene of L. monocytogenes, Listeria innocua, and Listeria seeligeri by the polymerase chain reac...Dietary phytonutrients – Secret for the good food to taste ba
Phytonutrients have been associated with cancer prevention and other health benefits. They are trace chemicals and taste bitter, acid or astringent. If phytonutrients have to be consumed then demands of good taste and good health may be wholly incompatible. The bitter phytonutrients protect the plant against being eaten by harmful herbivores. The plants which contains phyto nutrients are...Frozen food invite food poisoning
According to British microbiologists, in the overseas travel, pre-packed sandwiches and cold meat raise the risk of poisoning with a common bacterium. Campylobacter is a major cause of food poisoning in the UK. It causes diarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal pain and even complications like arthritis and Guillain-Barre syndrome, a type of temporary paralysis. The Public Health Laboratory...Can one get addicted to fast food?
The New Scientist magazine in its January issue has reported that a regular diet of fast foods like hamburgers, fries and foods high in fat and calories may be addictive. The researchers have found that eating oneself to obesity is not just due to a lack of self-control, but is most likely due to the hormonal changes caused by the fast foods, in the body, that could impair the ability to...Fortifying Foods Found To Reduce Birth Defects
Fortifying foods like flour, pasta and cornmeal with folic acid markedly reduces the number of infants born with neural tube defects like spina bifida, say researchers according to a new study. //Thus researchers advice pregnant women to take folic acid supplements in early pregnancy when the neural tube is forming. But women also need to maintain adequate levels of folic acid prior to pr...Food Habits Could Change Your Genes
Eating specific food could change your genes, say researchers after success in a rodent study.Researchers Moshe Szyf, Michael Meaney and colleagues at McGill University in Montreal have found that nutrients // and supplements changed genetics by switching on or off certain genes in rodents, reports science portal EurekAlert. The new research was conducted in the lines of a two-year-o...Anti-Gliadin IgG & IgA (Ab) EIA Gastrointestinal Markers 027-GD77 Celiac Disease Food Allergy
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