Nutrition, wood derived products

The Value of Wood-Derived Products in Ruminant Nutrition... 

Products and Uses Derived from the birch tree or from other wood pulp. It is a nutritive sweetener used in gum, candies, and breath mints. It was recently reported by researchers in Finland that regular doses of the natural sweetener re-... 

Ext. D C. Colorants not certifiable for use in oral products but considered safe for use in externally applied products specifically excludes colorants that may have oral toxicity, extender. A low-gravity material used in paint, ink, plastic, and rubber products to reduce cost per volume by increasing bulk. Some example of extenders are diatomaceous earth, wood floe, mineral rubber, etc. In the food industry, soybean is used as an extender in meat products, providing equivalent nutritional value at a lower cost, extract. A product derived from vegetable matter by the application of solvents, heat or pressure to separate it from the other constituent parts, extraction. The process of treating a natural raw material with an organic solvent. The solvent portion containing the extracted material is filtered and the solvent removed. The extract will contain nonvolatile as well as volatile components. Oleoresins, resinoids, concretes, and absolutes are all produced by extraction. 

Many plant biotechnological strategies are directed towards introducing fundamental changes in Ae properties of (woody) plant cell walls and their biopolymers. Alternatively, other approaches attempt to alter levels of specific constituents such as those imparting defense functions. The purposes of such manipulations are manifold To optimize wood properties for lumber and paper production, to produce new biopolymers which are expected to be valuable as replacements for petroleum-derived polymers, to alter nutritional qualities of foodstuffs, to increase the production of pharmacologically important compounds, and to either introduce or enhance novel defense functions in plants (i.e., antioxidants, biocidal properties and the like). Such approaches, in fact, represent exploitation of ongoing evolutionary processes by calculated human intervention. 

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