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Non-Nutritive Sweeteners in the Packaged Food Supply—An Assessment across 4 Countries [PDF]

Nutrients, 2018
Increased interest among consumers in the reduction of dietary sugar intake has led to the wider availability of food products containing non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS). However, the extent to which NNS are currently being used by manufacturers to sweeten processed food and beverage products, and how NNS may be displacing added sugars as a sweetener is
Elizabeth Dunford, Lindsey Taillie, Donna Miles, Helen Eyles, Lizbeth Tolentino-Mayo, Shu Ng   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

From omics to AI—mapping the pathogenic pathways in type 2 diabetes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Integrating multi‐omics data with AI‐based modelling (unsupervised and supervised machine learning) identify optimal patient clusters, informing AI‐driven accurate risk stratification. Digital twins simulate individual trajectories in real time, guiding precision medicine by matching patients to targeted therapies.
Siobhán O'Sullivan, Lu Qi, Pierre Zalloua   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policies for optimal nutrition-sensitive options: a study of food and nutrition security policies, strategies and programs in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing the coexistence of overnutrition, undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies. Comprehensive programs and coherent public policies are required to address this problem. A study of food and nutrition security policies,
Simbarashe Sibanda, Pamela Munjoma-Muchinguri, Phyllis Ohene-Agyei, Alice Warukira Murage   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring lipid diversity and minimalism to define membrane requirements for synthetic cells

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Designing the lipid membrane of synthetic cells is a complex task, in which its various roles (among them solute transport, membrane protein support, and self‐replication) should all be integrated. In this review, we report the latest top‐down and bottom‐up advances and discuss compatibility and complexity issues of current engineering approaches ...
Sergiy Gan, Victoria Scarpelli, Marten Exterkate   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The potential of future foods for a sustainable future

eFood
Future foods have attracted widespread attention due to the view of a sustainable supply of food and nutritional health. At present, the food industry still faces high energy consumption and pollution, which have caused enormous pressure on the ...
Jing Wang, Xin Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Reaching last mile consumers: how mobile traders facilitate stable access to nutritious foods

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Food and nutrition security has grown from just the availability, accessibility, and utilization of food, to include the stability of access, the agency of people, and the sustainability of the food system overall.
Sharon K. Suri
doaj   +1 more source

Interactions between Food Environment and (Un)healthy Consumption: Evidence along a Rural-Urban Transect in Viet Nam

Agriculture, 2021
There is limited evidence on food environment in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and the application of food environment frameworks and associated metrics in such settings. Our study examines how food environment varies across an urban-peri-urban-
Trang Nguyen, Huong Pham Thi Mai, Marrit van den Berg, Tuyen Huynh Thi Thanh, Christophe Béné   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ergothioneine supplementation improves pup phenotype and survival in a murine model of spinal muscular atrophy

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disease affecting motor neurons. Individuals with SMA experience mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of an antioxidant and neuroprotective substance, ergothioneine (ERGO), on an SMNΔ7 mouse model of SMA.
Francesca Cadile, Daniela Ratto, Giorgia Rastelli, Ottavia Eleonora Ferraro, Caterina Temporini, Sunil Kumar, Simona Boncompagni, Paola Rossi, Monica Canepari   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Completeness of nutrient declarations and the average nutritional composition of pre-packaged foods in Beijing, China

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2016
Increasing consumption of pre-packaged foods is likely an important driver of diet-related diseases in China. From January 2013 it became mandatory to provide a standardised nutrient declaration on pre-packaged foods in China.
Liping Huang, Mphil, Bruce Neal, MB, ChB, PhD, Elizabeth Dunford, PhD, Guansheng Ma, PhD, Jason H.Y. Wu, PhD, Michelle Crino, MPH, Helen Trevena, MHumNutr   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microbial exopolysaccharide production by polyextremophiles in the adaptation to multiple extremes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Polyextremophiles are microorganisms that endure multiple extreme conditions by various adaptation strategies that also include the production of exopolysaccharides (EPSs). This review provides an integrated perspective on EPS biosynthesis, function, and regulation in these organisms, emphasizing their critical role in survival and highlighting their ...
Tracey M Gloster, Ebru Toksoy Öner
wiley   +1 more source