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Evaluation of the quality of natural products for the preparation of chamomile and mint tea in Costa Rica
(2017)
In this study, the quality and safety of chamomile and mint tea marketed in Costa Rica were evaluated. Physical and chemical analyses, the presence of toxic substances and pathogenic microorganisms were carried out, to ...
Discrimination, quantitation, and identification of edible vegetable oil blends based on their fatty acid profiles
(2021)
Based on the most common vegetable oil blends, binary and ternary analytical mixtures were constructed in mass fractions from 0.50 to 0.97, and their fatty acid profile was determined and represented graphically. The fatty ...
Selenium Concentrations in Serum and its Outputs in Milk and Urine from Grazing Jersey Cow Herds Found in Two Dairy Production Regions from Costa Rica
(2017)
Objective: The study aimed to determine the concentration of selenium (Se) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) in serum and the Se concentration in milk and urine in grazing Jersey cows in two dairy producing areas of Costa ...
Nitrogen/protein and one-step moisture and ash examination in foodstuffs: Validation case analysis using automated combustion and thermogravimetry determination under ISO/IEC 17025 guidelines
(2021-11)
Method validation within food science is a not only paramount to assess method certainty and ensure the quality of the results, but a pennant in analytical chemistry. Proximate analysis is an indispensable requirement for ...
A Review on Phytochemicals (Including Essential Oils and Extracts) Inclusion in Feed and Their Effects on Food Producing Animals
(2017)
This report is intended to give an overlook at the essential oil and phytochemical applications on food producing animals when applied to feed. The first part aims to illustrate that gas chromatography coupled with mass ...
Tetracyclines in Food and Feedingstuffs: From Regulation to Analytical Methods, Bacterial Resistance, and Environmental and Health Implications
(2017)
Antibiotics are widely used as growth promoters in animal husbandry; among them, the tetracyclines are a chemical group of relevance, due to their wide use in agriculture, surpassing in quantities applied almost every other ...
Selected instrumental techniques applied in food and feed: quality, safety and adulteration analysis
(2021)
This review presents an overall glance at selected instrumental analytical techniques and methods used in food analysis, focusing on their primary food science research applications. The methods described represent approaches ...
Physicochemical and sensory assessment of partial corn substitutions with carotenoid-containing non-traditional flours during tortilla preparation
(2022)
Tortilla is a staple food for several countries and a gluten-free alternative and can be enriched using other non-traditional flours to improve their nutritional value. Three different lime and moisture concentrations were ...
Acrylamide in foods: from regulation and registered levels to chromatographic analysis, nutritional relevance, exposure, mitigation approaches, and health effects
(2022-01)
Herein we explore the latest research on a chemical compound resulting from food processing and during the Maillard reaction: Acrylamide (ACR). ACR is formed during high-temperature cooking processes (i.e. >120 °C), such ...