By D A Bender
The examine of foodstuff and meals covers many disciplines together with agriculture, biology, physics, chemistry, foodstuff expertise, meals, and medication. As study of the hyperlinks among foodstuff and wellbeing and fitness maintains to extend, it really is extra vital than ever that experts in such parts as nutrition processing and meals be conversant in frequently strange terminology that differing disciplines use. Bender's Dictionary of nutrients and foodstuff expertise meets this desire by way of delivering succinct, authoritative definitions of over 6,100 phrases in nutrients and nutrients know-how, in addition to nutrient composition information for 340 meals and an appendix on nutrient consumption and different helpful information. The 8th version joins its predecessors, every one bestseller of their personal correct, as a necessary reference booklet for a person attracted to food, dietetics, nutrients technology, and meals expertise. the 1st version used to be released forty years in the past and contained 2,000 entries. This version contains greater than 5,000 succinct authoritative definitions. an individual fascinated with the research of foodstuff and nutrients expertise will unavoidably locate articles and lectures that go the bounds of person topics and use strange terminology and jargon. it's the so much entire and up to date desk-top reference on hand in case you want to know approximately nutrients and nutrients expertise.
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The name may be derived from the herb espic or spikenard. assize of bread English; courts to prosecute bakers selling under-weight or over-priced bread (established 1266, repealed 1815). astaxanthin A carotenoid, the pink colour of salmon and trout muscle; not vitamin a active. astringency The action of unripe fruits and cider apples, among other foods, to cause a contraction of the epithelial tissues of the tongue (literally astringency means ‘a drawing together’). It is 41 believed to result from a destruction of the lubricant properties of saliva because of precipitation by tannins.
Aperient Any mild laxative. APF See animal protein factor. org/. aphagia Inability to swallow. Difficulty in swallowing is dysphagia. aphagosis Inability to eat. aphtha Small ulcers occurring singly or in groups in the mouth as small red or white spots. Cause unknown. apiculture Bee keeping for honey production; derives from the Latin name of the honey bee, Apis mellifera. apio Root vegetable from the legume Apios tuberosa, eaten like potatoes. apo-carotenals See carotenals. apoenzyme The protein part of an enzyme which requires a coenzyme for activity, and is therefore inactive if the coenzyme is absent.
See also available lysine. available carbon dioxide See baking powder; flour, self-raising. available lysine Not all of the lysine in proteins is biologically available, since some is linked through the ε-amino group, either to sugars in the Maillard complex (see maillard reaction), or to 44 other amino acids. These linkages are not hydrolysed by digestive enzymes, and so the lysine cannot be absorbed. Available lysine is that proportion of the protein-bound lysine in which the ε-amino group is free, so that it can be absorbed after digestion of the protein.