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Khalidullin OH*

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2020.03.000156

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The climate is changing from the artificial fumes that mankind has created. Artificial fumes differ from natural fumes in quality, volume and speed. Water is intended only for consumption-for drinking. But we, not understanding her essence, made her a slave. Turned into a working reagent, a means of increasing comfort. They began to use it as a liquid to wash everything and everything, move it with pumps, heat and boil, cool, dissolve all chemical elements in it, fill in the fields, destroy its molecules in the air with engines, furnaces and compressors...... ReadMore

Shaw Watanabe* and Kazumoto Inuma

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2020.03.000155

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The relationship between rice consumption and the cumulative number of COVID-19/1000000 at June 6, 2020 was examined after compilation of data from 19 major countries on 5 continents. A strong negative correlation with a coefficient of determination of 0.59 was found. On the contrary, wheat consumption showed the positive correlation. This suggests that resistance to SARS-CoV-2 infection is influenced by the nature of staple foods...... ReadMore

Mohammed Alnasser, Khaled Alzeer and Yunus Khatri*

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2020.03.000154

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This study evaluated the quality of honey imported from eighteen different countries into Saudi Arabia. Twenty pesticides, 5-hydroxymethlfurfural and the antibiotic chloramphenicol were analysed. Approximately 20% of honey was rejected out of 712 consignments. Ten countries breached the regulations for one or more of the following: exceeding the MRLs, using banned pesticides or presence of chloramphenicol...... ReadMore

Dennis Edem*

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2020.03.000153

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The knowledge of the physical and chemical properties of the soil can be used in developing best management practices for sustainable soil quality and maximum crop yield. This study was carried out in Uyo, Nigeria to determine the effect of cattle-cud digester on soil properties and yield of sweet potato on acid sand of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria...... ReadMore

Dennis Edem*

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2020.03.000152

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The shells of molluscs (oyster- Spondulus spinosus and snail - Achatina achatina), which are known to contain high amounts of calcium carbonate and which are abundant in the state were compared with commercial lime in the management of soils developed on acid sands in Akwa Ibom State. Results showed high neutralizing equivalent value of 65 and 75% for oyster and snail shells...... ReadMore

Miklavčič Višnjevec A, Butinar B, Schwarzkopf M and Bučar Miklavčič M*

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2020.03.000151

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Background: The assessment of the quality extra virgin olive oils used as liquid medium in canned fish together with the levels of phenolic compounds is very important in order to evaluate if the higher price of the extra virgin olive oil in canned fish in comparison with fish in olive oil is justified...... ReadMore

Ling Hui Claytor*

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2020.02.000149

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Approximately 40% of body weight is made up of muscles and thus quantitatively it is a critical organ that should not be ignored. In addition to structural function in movement and maintenance of posture and balance, skeletal muscle also contributes to metabolic functions of the body. The muscle constitutes the main reservoir of proteins and amino acids and in particular glutamine is synthesized and stored in the muscle in large amounts. It also participates in the regulation of glucose levels...... ReadMore

Suzan Elsayed Abdel Rassoul, Mohamed Fawzi Farahat*, Eglal Ghoneim Salem, Yousry Mahmoud Gohar and Manal Ibrahim Sheta

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2020.02.000141

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Background: Kareish cheese is one of the most popular and traditional soft cheese consumed in Egypt. It is commonly made in the countryside, especially in small villages. The low-income people use Kariesh cheese in their diet owing to its high protein content, low fat and reasonable price. Chitosan is a polysaccharide prepared commercially from chitin. Chitosan and its derivatives are extensively studied in medical and pharmaceutical fields due to their competitive biological properties. Nigella sativa is an annual medicinal plant has long been used as a natural medicine for the treatment of many disease conditions...... ReadMore

Serajoddin Razavizadeh, Saeedeh Faghih Haghani and Hamid Ghomi*

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000140

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n the past decade, non-thermal plasmas such as atmospheric plasma jets, dielectric barrier discharges, corona discharges and even gliding arc discharges are widely used for food processing [1,2]. The cold plasmas are effective for food decontamination [3], food packaging modifications [4], enzyme inactivation [5], toxin removal [6] and wastewater treatment [7]. Also, the effect of cold plasma on endogenous enzymes and seed germination is widely studied [2]. The advantages of cold plasmas over the traditional methods lies with non-thermal, economical, versatile and environmentally friendly nature. The cold plasmas contain many chemical species like ions and metastable molecules that can interact with bio-surfaces and also the ultra-violet radiations can take p..... ReadMore

Richard M Fleming*, Matthew R Fleming and Tapan K Chaudhuri

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000138

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It is well recognized that coronary artery disease and cancer are the result of inflammatory changes, which occur within the tissues of the body - specifically the walls of the coronary arteries (CAD) and within the specific organ (e.g. breast, colon) tissue in question [1-3] – and not the blood. Despite this obvious difference between blood and tissue, medical studies looking at the impact of diets and drugs have primarily utilized changes in qualitative or at best semi-quantitative imaging [4-6], weight and blood tests to monitor presumed changes in heart disease and cancer. However, changes in heart disease and cancer cannot be measured through the mere use of blood tests alone, since these blood tests merely tell us what is happening within the blood and not what is happening in the tissues of the body proper [7,8] – hence, the pe..... ReadMore

Richard M Fleming*, Matthew R Fleming and Tapan K Chaudhuri

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000136

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Cholesterol is a combination of cholesterol, protein and fat, assembled in different combinations, yielding various forms of cholesterol molecules. Routine evaluation of one’s risk for coronary artery disease has focused on measuring cholesterol levels in the blood. Assessment of the benefit of lowering LDL cholesterol has focused on the use of these blood tests, coronary arteriograms and CCT scores.However, evidence demonstrates that changes in blood cholesterol and other inflammatory markers does not correlate with actual changes in physiologic CAD. The use of most cholesterol lowering medications is not associated with a reduction in body LDL cholesterol, but rather a shift of LDL from the blood into the cells of the body, where actual oxidative damage is associated with inflammatory problems. Absent the demonstration of improvement ..... ReadMore

Roberto Carlos Mourão Pinho

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000135

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The label “autism” has become one of the most important linguistic and conceptual creations in medical and psychological nomenclature, and has two names linked to pioneering studies: Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger and Austrian psychiatrist Leo Kanner. Seventy years have passed since the publication of Asperger’s text on autism (1944), Kanner’s article (1943) had been known since its publication...... ReadMore

Fahim Shaltout

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000134

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Chicken meat and its products are important for human diet in all over the world because they contribute to solve the global food problems and provide the well-known protein, fat, essential amino acids, minerals, vitamins and other nutrients and they also have a milder flavor which is more readily complemented with flavoring and sauces...... ReadMore

Akinrinmade Remilekun*, Ogada IA, Njogu E and Keshinro OO

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000132

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This study showed the effect of nutrition education on complementary feeding practices among caregivers in Ondo State, Nigeria. The study was a cluster randomized controlled-trial design. The study participants were in two groups. One was intervention and the other one was the control group in a ratio of 1:1. The sample size was 282; the intervention group was 142 and the control group was 142. Intervention on complementary feeding was carried out inform of nutrition education among the caregivers in the intervention group and the control group received no intervention. The intervention group received four 4 lesson sessions per group. The sessions were based on continued breastfeeding, timely introduction of complementary feeding, minimum meal frequency, minimum dietary diversity, minimum acceptable diet, feeding with iron rich foods, res..... ReadMore

Osuji MN

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000131

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The study is on net revenue determination of beans marketers in Imo state, Nigeria. Specifically, it examines the socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents, determines the factors influencing the selling price and marketing margin of beans and identifies the marketing constraint for beans in the study area. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were employed to select eighteen (18) wholesalers and forty-eight (48) retailers. Descriptive statistics and multiple regression models were used to analyze the data collected. Results showed that majority of the beans traders were males, within the age range of 41-50 years, well educated, have high marketing experience, married and belong to trade/cooperative association. The regression analysis shows that the purchase price of beans favored the selling price of wholesale..... ReadMore

Osuji MN*

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000130

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The study is on structural Mapping of beans (cowpea) marketers in Imo state, Nigeria. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were employed to select twenty- four (24) wholesalers and forty-two (42) retailers. Descriptive statistics, marketing margin analytical technique and Gini coefficient analytical technique were used to analyze the data collected. Results showed that majority of the beans traders were males, within the age range of 31-40 years, literate, married and have acquired marketing experience which ranges from 11-20 years. Beans’ marketing in the study area has two main channels, the major channel starts with the producers (beans farmer) to rural assembler, wholesalers, retailers and final consumer. The Gini coefficients for wholesalers and retailers were 0.663 and 0.656 res..... ReadMore

Fahim A Shaltout*, Mohamed A El shatter and Heba M Fahim

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000129

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The study was performed to determine the presence of antibiotic residues in 50 random samples of fresh beef marketed at Giza governorate, Egypt. The detection of antibiotics residues was carried out according to methods recommended by Hietzman (1994) (4-plates test) and USDA (2011) (Bioassay test).the obtained results indicated that the incidence of antibiotic residues in the examined samples was 3 samples of amino glycosides, 2 samples of B-Lactams (penicillin), one sample of Ciprofloxacin one sample of oxytetracycline. It was shown that 2% of the samples contain Sulphonamides and Ciprofloxacin, (B-Lactam +Oxytetracyclines), (Sulphonamides + Oxytetracycline), (Sulphonamides plusB-Lactam), (Aminoglycosides plus Ciprofloxacin),(Macrolides plus Ciprofloxacin) (Aminoglycosides plus B-Lactam), (Macrolides plus B-La..... ReadMore

Faisal Aqlan, Saleh Bajamal, Mjadi Jamal Alil, Abdulmajeed Allahyani, Marwan Al johani, Faisal Alharbi, Mohammed Baeshen and Al-Farga Ammar*

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000127

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The definition of a drug is “any substance that in any part of the body changes normal metabolism”. It also refers to any chemical substance taken to cure or prevent disease, improve mental or physical performance, or deal with reality or escape it. Drug abuse is nowadays a major global societal and economic problem. Analysis of abused drugs and their metabolites in human blood, urine, saliva, sweat, and hair, etc., has been a hot topic of research in recent years as an important step in monitoring drug abuse...... ReadMore

Chikaire JU*, Ani AO, Ajaero JO and Odoemenam EF

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2019.02.000126

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One of the major but hidden challenges to livestock development and animal agriculture the world over is resource-use conflicts between crop farmers, pastoralists and other land users. This is so because during conflict situation, almost all human livelihood activities come to a standstill including livestock farming. This study therefore sought to examine how conflicts involving different land users hinder livestock production. Questionnaire and oral interview were used to obtain information from a total of 120 pastoralists in three selected states of Southeast (Abia, Enugu and Imo). Data were analyzed using percentages, mean and standard deviation. The results showed that the mean age of pastoralists was 38, and the mean household size was 10, mean herding experience was 18...... ReadMore

Adel A El Lahamy*, Khalil I Khalil, Shaban A El Sherif, Hassan R Mohamed, Awad A Mahmud and Mohamed HH Roby

DOI : 10.32474/SJFN.2019.01.000125

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Cooking techniques were applied on Mullet fish (Mugil cephalous) steaks. Raw Mullet fish steaks were stored at -180C for 180 days to study the changes in the proximate composition during storage period. The proximate composition of raw Mullet fish was affected by cooking techniques. Moisture contents decreased in fried and grilled mullet steaks while protein, fat and ash contents were significant increase in cooked mullet steaks...... ReadMore