Essential food stuffs

Since food is the primary source of essential elements for humans, the accurate and precise analysis of food stuff and commodities is critical for consumers and health care professionals to take decisions and make recommendations based on the... 

Using of the essential oils in food stuffs, beverages and perfume industry has significantly increased in consequence of the growing interest of customers to the natural ingredients since the synthetic additives are potentially dangerous for human health [1], It is... 

In recent years using of the essential oils of spice-aromatic plants as flavorings in food, pharmacological and perfume industry is of great interest. Until the recent time odor and taste of the essential oils were mainly studied for flavoring of food stuffs, beverages etc. However... 

In 1935, the Committee was renamed the Analytical Methods Committee (AMC) but the main analytical work was carried out by sub-committees composed of analysts with specialised knowledge of the particular application area. The earliest topics selected for study were milk products, essential oils, soap and the determination of metals in food colourants. Later applications included the determination of fluorine, crude fibre, total solids in tomato products, trade effluents and trace elements, and vitamins in animal feeding stuffs. These later topics led to the publication of standard methods in a separate booklet. All standard and recommended methods were collated and published in a volume entitled Bibliography of Standard, Tentative and Recommended or Recognised Methods of Analysis in 1951. This bibliography was expanded to include full details of the method under the title Official, Standardised and Recommended Methods of Analysis in 1976 with a second edition in 1983 and a third edition in 1994. 

INOSITOL. A constituent of body tissue. In purified form it is used as a nutrient and dietary supplement in some foods and feed-stuffs. The chemical name of inositol is hexahydroxycyclohexane, CAS 87-89-8. CfiHalOHls- ZHjO. There are nine isomeric forms of inositol. Myoinositol or meso-inositnl (err 1.2,3.5-fram-4.6-liexatiydroxycyclohexanc) is the isomer that possesses essential nutrient activity. The substance, often identified as a vitamin, is found in small amounts in many vegetables, citrus fruits, cereal grains, liver, kidney, heart and other meat. The commercial source is com (maize) steep liquor. In addition to its use in nutrition, it finds use in medicine and as an intermediate for organic syntheses. 

Materials are essential to our life. It is hard to imagine how human civilization would have developed without stone, wood, clay, bronze, iron, brass, copper, and other kinds of stuff our tools and instmments are made of. Ohve oil and other vegetable oils, animal fats, wine and beer, honey and beeswax, juices and syrups, sea salt and rock salt, milk, and water have been used as food and medicines since prehistoric times. Materials are part and parcel of the material culture of human societies. Hence it is not surprising that they have served to demarcate large historical periods in human civilization, such as the Stone Age, Bronze Age, or Iron Age. Materials are even indispensable for the most accomplished forms of human hfe. There is no modern painting without canvas and pigments, no poem without paper and ink, no classical symphony without wood and metals to build the violin and the piano. 

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