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Compendium of Sodium Reduction Strategies in Foods: A Scoping Review
Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 2022
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Commercial Devices Provide Estimates of Energy Balance with Varying Degrees of Validity in Free-Living Adults
The Journal of Nutrition, 2022
Interest in improving accuracy, and replacing self-reports with passive tools when estimating energy balance (EB) using intake (EI), storage (ES) and expenditure (EE)) has led to wide use of commercial devices e.g. Fitbits. A study with free-living adults looked at repeatability, and measurement error of these devices and showed varying degrees of validity when used to estimate EB compared to gold-standard techniques, with EE measures being the most robust and ES the poorest.
Rare Sugars and their Health Effects in Humans: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of the Evidence from Human Trials
Nutrition Reviews, 2022
Little is known about the unique physiological and cardiometabolic effects of rare sugars in humans. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review and synthesis of controlled intervention studies of rare sugars in humans, using PRISMA guidelines.
Review of Regulatory Reference Values and Background Levels for Heavy Metals in the Human Diet
Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 2022
The Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences has updated a heavy metals screening tool for foods. The update includes re-evaluated toxicity values and dietary exposure estimates used to estimate potential risks.
Induction of the Viable-but-Nonculturable State in Salmonella Contaminating Dried Fruit
ASM Journals / Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2022
Salmonella is a leading foodborne pathogen globally causing numerous outbreaks of foodborne illnesses and remains the leading contributor to deaths attributed to foodborne disease in the United States and other industrialized nations. Therefore, efficient detection methods for Salmonella contaminating food are critical for public health and food safety. Culture-based microbiological methods are considered the gold standard for the detection and enumeration of Salmonella in food. Findings from this study suggest that unique stressors on dried fruit can induce the VBNC state in Salmonella, thus rendering it undetectable with culture-based methods even though the bacteria remain viable.