Consumers’ increasing awareness of healthiness and sustainability of food presents a great challenge to food industry to develop healthier, biologically active and sustainable food products. Bioactive peptides derived ...

In recent years, there have been studies that show a correlation between the hyperactivity of children and use of artificial food additives, including colorants. This has, in part, led to preference of natural products ...

The central goal of grain cultivation is the production of high-quality food or feed-related raw materials for the processing industry. Management of Fusarium mycotoxins in Finnish cereal grains have a direct ...

A number of contaminants such as arsenic, cadmium and lead are released into the environment from natural and anthropogenic sources contaminating food and water. Chronic oral ingestion of arsenic, cadmium and lead is ...

Plants, including cereal plants, defend themselves against abiotic and biotic stress factors by various means. In addition to physical barriers there are a number of chemical defense systems in order to protect growing ...

The origin of foods plays an important role in their metabolome (the set of compounds present as products of metabolic events). The compositions of food plants are inevitably determined by a number of inherent ...

Sea buckthorn (Hippophaë rhamnoides) and currants (Ribes spp.) are rich sources of flavonoids and other polyphenols. Both proanthocyanidins (PAs) in sea buckthorn and flavonol glycosides (FGs) in currant leaves ...

The hen’s egg is a source of new life. Therefore, it contains many biologically active compounds. In addition to being a very nutritious food and also commonly used in the food industry due to its many techno-functional ...