Zamne is a wild legume and a famine food that attracts interest for its health benefits and has become a delicacy in Burkina Faso. This study aimed to determine the nutritional quality of the traditionally cooked Zamne, appreciate the effectiveness of the traditional cooking process, and compare the properties of the traditionally used cooking alka...
status: published
Pigs were fed either red and processed meat or chicken meat within either a prudent or a Western dietary pattern for four weeks (2 × 2 full factorial design). The colon microbial community and volatile organic compounds were assessed (either quantified or based on their presence). Results show that Lactobacilli were characteristic for the chicken ×...
In the present study, we aimed to investigate the changes in triacylglycerol (TAG) composition as affected by alterations in the cows' diet due to seasonal variations and genetic factors. For this study, 50 milk fat samples in winter and 50 in summer were used from 25 cows with the DGAT1 KK genotype and 25 cows with the DGAT1 AA genotype. The sampl...
Published in Botanica Marina
The influence of environmental factors on the infection susceptibility of four different marine diatom host species to chytrid infection was tested under laboratory conditions, using host and parasite isolates obtained from diverse coastal areas in north-west Iceland in 2015. Specifically, a total of 120 monoclonal marine diatom host cultures of Na...
Producing fish silage for animal feed is an excellent way of valorizing underutilized fishery byproducts. However, the nutritional quality of fish silage strongly depends on the freshness and composition of the raw materials. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of raw material composition (RMC) on nutritional quality and stability...
CO2 supplementation is usually a limiting factor in microalgal culture systems, especially when flue gases are used as the carbon source. In this study, tris(hydroxymethyl) aminomethane (THAM) was applied as a gas carrier to increase CO2 storage capacity in the culture medium and enhance microalgal biomass production. Abiotic experiments showed tha...
As migration induced fat bloom remains one of the major quality issues in compositeed chocolate products, this study investigated whether cocoa butter based diacylglycerols could delay or prevent this phenomenon. A model system consisting of a plastic cylinder filled with filling and chocolate was utilized for this purpose. Using an automated image...
Published in The Journal of nutrition
Fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) is the strongest genetic determinant of obesity identified to date. Dietary fat is a key environmental factor that may interact with genotype to affect risk of obesity and metabolic syndrome (MetS). This study investigated associations among FTO rs9939609, obesity measures, and MetS phenotypes in adults and det...
Transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) is the strongest genetic determinant of type 2 diabetes (TDM) and insulin-related phenotypes to date. Dietary fat is a key environmental factor which may interact with genotype to affect risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and T2DM. This study investigated the relationship between the TCF7L2 rs7903146 polymorphi...
