A Short Note On Vitamin And Its Effects On The Food And Beverage Industry With Goal Of Protection

The second objective of this research is to apply and validate a new process techniques for the production of food-protein/fiber based nutraceuticals such as microwave treatments as a processing or pre-processing technique to alter the molecular structure of proteins and fibers thereby enhancing their digestibility and yielding proteins, fibers or hydrolysates, with novel functionality, nutraceutical benefits and reduced allergenicity. This objective is aiming to determine the range of conditions under which to obtain the optimum product properties with improved activities as functional ingredients in food industry inheriting nurtaceutical properties. In this regard, my previous investigations revealed that microwave is a promising technique that could lead to novel functional ingredients[4, 5].

Michael Pollan, the author of “In Defense of Food”, is a journalist, who is engrossed in nutritional science as well as its history. By writing this book, Pollan tries to undermine the food industries and health-claiming campaigns and inform us how they misled us about the way we should eat. The low-fat campaign is an example of this, and as said on page 43 of the book, “the low-fat campaign has been based on little scientific evidence and may have caused unintended health consequences.” In the book, Pollan speaks from the perspective of a journalist who wants to share his ideas and discoveries about nutrition. He sounds a little bemused and apprehensive at the same time. When talking about plant foods on page 64, he tries to understand what

Dietary supplements are becoming more and more widely used. Whether it be for sport performance, herbal, or just a vitamin, many are being used and misused. People do not understand how dietary supplements are regulated and what the pros and cons are.

As prescription drug is becoming more and more common and widespread among the American society, it is obvious that drugs should have high quality in order to protect the consumers from any substantial danger that the drug could pose. Not just prescription drugs but dietary supplements as well. There has been an 80 percent increase in dietary supplement consumptions. But sadly the The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (1994) has helped manufacturers from facing FDA regulations. Furthermore, dietary supplements are being labeled as food and I don’t believe that they should be because people are less educated when it comes to medication and drugs, so if they happen to take in contaminated drugs, they would not know how to deal with

One of the sub-criterions that I found interesting is Health, Nutrition, and Safely Policies and Procedures. This sub-criterion addresses the procedures to promote health and wellness and children and adult’s safety. Two things that I believe would be easy are taking steps to reduce occupational hazard and arranging sleeping positions. These two would be easy because it does not take a lot of work to teach a child how to sleep the correct way and how to reduce occupational hazards. Two things that seem challenging to achieve are supervising children when teaching and managing plans. These two seem difficult because supervising a group of children take a lot of effort to make them listen and planning out the agenda for the day require a lot

There are many types of supplements around us – dietary, nutritional, vitamins and minerals, sports and herbal supplements. Supplement intake is routine for many competitors because it is believed to improve athletic performance. Although dietary supplements, such as vitamins and minerals, protein, creatine and creatine, are regulated by the FDA, consumption of these supplements must proceed with caution as there are detriments as well as benefits.

Resveratrol is a natural polyphenolic phytoalexin that mainly found in grapes, peanuts, berries and cocoa [1, 2], and it can benefit in anti-fungal attack, UV protection and recovery of physical damage [3-5]. Recently, researchers have considered resveratrol could potentially bring advantages to human health such as anti-inflammation, improved glucose tolerance, neuroprotection, anti-aging, prevention of obesity and diabetes, antioxidant and improved regulation of metabolism [6-16]. Although scientists have found health benefits from resveratrol, it is difficult to utilize resveratrol from natural in commercial pharmaceutical products, supplement and functional food, as the poor pharmacokinetic properties of resveratrol: low water solubility

Nutrition is a balancing act that is needed by athletes. They know they have to eat enough food to acquire energy and needed nutrients so as to ensure optimal performance. Yet, many athletes limit or restrict their energy intake in order to control their body weight. These opposing dietary concerns can place athletes at nutritional risk specifically insufficient calcium intake that leads to bone density

We all know that vitamins are vital to our overall health. Your body cannot function properly without receiving the necessary vitamins and minerals every day. Sometimes called "micronutrients" by doctors and nutritionists, vitamins and minerals work in conjunction with proteins, fats, and carbohydrates to keep us healthy.

Consuming meats functions and organizes the nervous system. As a human, eating meat is a milestone in human evolution. Tracing the earliest diet of ancestors, compared brains of herbivores and brains of omnivores, scientists found that omnivores purchase larger size brain. There are various reasons for developing the brain. Some argue that finding and cooking foods promoted their complex organization of the brain. In other words, during the process of hunting and cooking, our male ancestors needed to come up strategy, corporate with others, share prey with their family or present their strength to females, which absolutely attribute to developing the brain. Despite iron, another important element should not be ignored. Vitamin B-12 plays a

Obesity has been the number one health issue in America since 2003; it not only affects a person’s physical health, but also causes emotional distress which nearly 100 million Americans must deal with every day. As the obesity problem continues to grow, society wonders who the responsibility falls on. Some people believe it is individual responsibility, while others believe food manufacturers are responsible.

Technology and industrialization of the food industry have changed how food is grown, and altered its nutritional value. Multinational organizations are making decisions that affect the health and prosperity of people worldwide. These organizations have found ingenuous ways of packaging and marketing unsafe products to the public. Education and awareness of the problems are the only hope for improving the food industry and the quality of food.

Since ancient times it has established the role of diet in the prevention of disease, Hippocrates of Kos (Greece, V century BC-IV century BC), considered the father of modern medicine taught a scientific manner, many diseases and their treatment after detailed observation, postulating one of his important aphorisms: “Let your food be your medicine, and let your medicine be your food”. At this time already Hippocrates was driving the idea of preventive medicine. He had conceived schemes by observation on environmental causes of the diseases, emphasizing not only in the diet, but on the generally the patient's life and how it should affect their health and convalescence (Grammaticos and Diamantis, 2008).

Juicing is the process of extracting juice from plant tissues such as fruits and vegetables. There are numerous methods; from extracting the juice by hand or the large-scaled manufacturing processes that is used to efficiently retrieve the juice from the fruits and vegetables included in the mixture. According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, an alternative medicine proponent, there are two main reasons why the incorporation of vegetable juices are essential to improve the health of the people. First, you are able to consume the ample amount of vegetables and fruits in an efficient manner. Rather than consuming vegetables in its solid form, it is easier to digest it once it’s converted to its liquid form. Second, since the consumption of fruits and vegetables would be easier with juicing, you can add a wider variety to your own diet. As it was stated in one of his articles, that once a person repeatedly consumes the same type of vegetables and fruits every day, there is a chance to develop an allergy to a certain type of food. With juicing you may avoid this from happening by expanding the variety of fruits and vegetable you intake and at the same time explore with the variety you are available with.

Food safety is one of the primary concerns in our industry, especially to those who process food in large amounts. Therefore, proper sanitation must be provided in order to destroy microorganisms that could possibly spoil and contaminate food products.