Nutritional quality

Table 4.5 The nutritional quality of Quorn and some conventional foods...

The types and quantities of phytochemicals present in foods may have very little bearing on the nutritional quality of these foods and their contribution to human health. This is because ... 

C. Peri, A. Garrido and A. Lopez, eds.. The sensory and nutritional quality of virgin olive oil. Grasas y Aceitas, 45, (Symposium Issue) (1994) 1-81. 

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Williams C (2002) Nutritional quality of organic food shades of grey or shades of green Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 61, 19-24. 

Factors affecting the nutritional quality of liquid milk and milk products... 

Lucas A, Coulon J B, Grolier P, Martin B and Rock E (2005), Nutritional quality of dairy products and human health , in Hocquette J H and Gigli S, Indicators of Milk and Beef Quality, EAAP Pub. 112, Wageningen Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. 

More recently, a range of other quality and safety issues have been recognised by consumers and now influence poultry meat and egg buying patterns and behaviour. Most importantly this includes (i) the routine use of antibiotics as growth promoters and curative medicines and the potential for development of transferable antibiotic resistance, (ii) risk associated with enteric pathogen (e.g. Salmonella and Campylobacter) and toxin (e.g. dioxin) contaminants of poultry products, (iii) the environmental impact of poultry production and (iv) the sensory and nutritional quality of eggs and poultry meat (Menzi et al., 1997 Hamm et al., 2002 Rodenburg et al., 2004 Horsted et al., 2005). 

There are relatively few scientific studies which have compared the sensory and nutritional quality of eggs and poultry meat from organic, low input ,... 

For example, early access to a littered floor instead of the plastic grid typical in conventional aviary systems leads to increased foraging (which was shown to increase the nutritional quality of eggs see Section 8.2), less feather pecking and better tail feather condition during the remainder of the... 

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