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Labeling and nutritional education
2020
Abstract Nutritional food labeling has two components, a nutrient declaration on the back-of-package (usually mandatory) and supplementary simple graphical nutrition information on the front-of-package (commonly voluntary), which are aimed at assisting consumers to be aware of the nutritional value of foods in order to make healthy food choices. This is an important tool for nutritional education that can aid consumers in the fight against diet-related chronic diseases that currently constitute a global public health concern worldwide. In this chapter, the main factors involved in the use and understanding of nutrition labels by consumers, and a detailed explanation of the characteristics o…
Deficiency of Vitamin C in Dairy Products and Supplementation in Milk by Adding the Bioactive Natural Products
2011
Since milk constitutes an important item in the human diet and since the importance of an adequate amount of vitamin C in the diet is becoming more fully appreciated, it appeared to us that any investigation that might yield further information as to how milks containing greater quantities of this dietary essential might be produced would be worth while. Sea buckthorn is a natural multi-vitamins and a major source of vitamin C, fruits containing vitamin C at a rate of two times more than rosehips and ten times more than citrus (200-1500 mg). Strengthening with Vitamin C will be considering of content of vitamin C in milk samples taken per season (winter, spring, summer, autumn). This contri…