As I looked at restaurants across the country, each state revealed some things I had not known about Filipino history in America. I didn't know, for example, that Filipinos were the first Asian settlers here (we've been coming to the United States since the 1500s), nor did I fully und...
M. Miao, in Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems, 2014 Introduction In recent years, consumers have become increasingly concerned about the safety and quality of their food supply. To ensure that food supplies meet the highest standards of safety and nutritional quality, robust and state-...
Fig. 1: Timeline of the role of microbes in food. A view of the various applications that rely on microbial processes. State-of-the-art in each process is explained as well as the current or potential role of genetic engineering and other future developments to enhance the process or use....
In each crop year, maize prices are lowest after the harvest season and gradually increase until the next harvest season. Compared to the lowest prices in May, peak prices increased by 58% on average.Footnote 5 Given these seasonal price changes, it is profitable for households to buy maize ...
However, as the association of attributes is different in each inquiry this means each respondent complete its own and unique questionnaire. Figure 1 below is an example of a choice set. Figure 1. Choice Set illustration. In this example, the respondent chooses the attribute “Health benefits”...
included one public middle school and another private school for boys and girls (4 schools) and one state high school and another private school for boys and girls (4 schools). Similar criteria for the schools approached in each city was adopted (8 schools in Madinah and 8 schools in ...
“The region is known for its varied range of high-quality spices like cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg and pepper. But the level of spice and method of cooking differs from each state.” The cuisine also draws influence from Ayurvedic traditions – an ancient system of Indian medicine. ...
s food systems. We show that every country can claim positive outcomes in some parts of food systems, but none are among the highest ranked across all domains. Furthermore, some indicators are independent of national income, and each highlights a specific aspiration for healthy, sustainable and ...
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The fermented foods have been a part of the human diet in both traditional and modern cultures. Fermented food products are those produced through the addition of microbes such as yeast and bacteria. Each fermented food has distinct population of microorganisms, acts as probiotics, and produces a...