Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia, Two Volume SetFoods and Nutrition Encyclopedia, Second Edition is the updated, expanded version of what has been described as a "monumental, classic work." This new edition contains more than 2,400 pages; 1,692 illustrations, 96 of which are full-color photographs; 2,800 entries (topics); and 463 tables, including a table of 2,500 food compositions. A comprehensive index enables you to find information quickly and easily. |
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Foods and Nutrition Encyclopedia: A to H, Volume 1 M. E. Ensminger,Audrey H. Ensminger Aucun aperçu disponible - 1993 |
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absorption alcohol allergies amino acids amounts and/or anemia animals apple bacteria baking powder barley beans beef beer beverages bioflavonoids biotin blood sugar body bone bread butter calcium calories cancer carbohydrate carbon carrageenan cassava cause cells cereal cheese chemical cholesterol choline chromium citrus coffee color consumed contain cooked corn cream crop deficiency diabetes diet dietary digestive disease disorders dough dried drinks drugs eggs energy enzymes excretion factors fatty feeding fermentation fiber flavor flour folic acid Food Composition Table fruit glands glucose grain growth Hence hormones infants insulin intake intestine iron juice kcal kidney legumes liver malt meal meat metabolism milk minerals normal noteworthy nutrients NUTRITIONAL VALUE phosphorus plant potassium protein result rice salt sauce seeds sodium starch substances symptoms tion tissues types urine usually variety vegetables vitamin B-12 vitamin D wheat yeast
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Page 542 - That no additive shall be deemed to be safe if it is found to induce cancer when ingested by man or animal, of if it is found, after tests which are appropriate for the evaluation of the safety of food additives, to induce cancer in man or animal...
Page 349 - MiiiKia), the color is lost: so, in parts of the body where the epidermis is unusually thick (the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet), it is of a lighter shade.
Page 592 - ... consisting of powder and duck-shot, waa received in the left side of the youth, he being at a distance of not more than one yard from the muzzle of the gun. The contents entered posteriorly, and in an oblique direction, forward and inward, literally blowing off integuments and muscles of the size of a man's hand, fracturing and carrying away the anterior half of the sixth rib, fracturing the fifth, lacerating the lower portion of the left lobe of the lungs, the diaphragm, and perforating the...
Page 11 - Colors and coloring adjuncts. Substances used to impart, preserve, or enhance the color or shading of a food, including color stabilizers, color fixatives, color-retention agents, etc.
Page 323 - Know the seven danger signals that may mean cancer. 1. Unusual bleeding or discharge. 2. A lump or thickening in the breast or elsewhere. 3. A sore that does not heal. 4.
Page 494 - Meal is that part of commercial shelled corn that remains after the extraction of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup. It may or may not contain one or more of the following: corn solubles, corn oil meal.
Page 110 - By extracting an emulsion of almonds with ether filtering the clear solution and precipitating the emulsion with alcohol. emulsion. A stable mixture of two or more immiscible liquids held in suspension by small percentages of substances called emulsifiers. These are of two types: (1) Proteins or carbohydrate polymers which act by coating the surfaces of the dispersed fat or oil particles, thus preventing them from coalescing; these are sometimes called protective colloids.
Page 11 - Substances used to produce viscous solutions or dispersions, to impart body, improve consistency, or stabilize emulsions, including suspending and bodying agents, setting agents, jellying agents, and bulking agents, etc.
Page 364 - L centum hundred + gradas step, degree] : relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometer scale on which the interval between the freezing point and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point — abbr.
Page 11 - Processing aids. Substances used as manufacturing aids to enhance the appeal or utility of a food or food component, including clarifying agents, clouding agents catalysts, flocculents, filter aids, and crystallization inhibitors, etc.

