Effect of Climate Change on the Food Supply System: Implications for Food Processing in Nigeria

Climate change has become an issue of great concern in recent years due to its effect on every aspect of life. The ecosystem, agriculture, industry, households and human well-being are all intertwined with climate change issues. The food supply system worldwide has been affected and is also contributing to climate change due to emission of greenhouse gases that results in global warming with its attendant consequences such as floods, drought, forest fires, poverty, malnutrition, health and various socioeconomic problems. Agriculture and food processing, preservation, storage and distribution activities are seriously affected leading to adverse effect on the food supply chain. Holistic global, regional and national policies are required to cope with effects of global warming in such a way as to build people’s resilience and that of food supply

Effect of Substitution of Melon with Soybean on the Nutrient Content and Sensory Properties of Traditional Cakes

Traditional cakes were prepared from a blend of melon and soybean meal. The blended meal contained 10% and 20% soybean respectively while unblended meal contained 100% melon meal which served as control. Cakes obtained from the blends were analysed for proximate composition, amino acid content and organoleptic properties. The moisture content and protein content of the cakes increased significantly (p < 0.05) as the level of soybean inclusion was increased while the fat, ash and crude fibre contents of the cakes decreased significantly (p < 0.05) as the levelof soybean inclusion was increased. Inclusion of as little as 10% soybean increased the quantity of amino acids in the cake than the control cake. The organoleptic properties of the cakes were also acceptable at 10% level of soybean inclusion.Keywords: Traditional cake, proximate composition, melon, soybean, amino acid content, organoleptic properties

Effect of ambient storage condition on the pH and vitamin C content of selected Tetra-Pak packaged fruit juices marketed in Nigeria.

Effect of ambient storage condition on the pH and vitamin C content of selected Tetra-Pak packaged fruit juices marketed in Nigeria were evaluated. These selected commercial fruit juices included CofrutosOrange, Cofrutos Tropical Mixed Fruit, Chivita Mango, Chivita Pineapple, Don Simon Multifruta and PureJoy Apple fruit juices. The juice samples were subjected to an ambient storage condition at mean maximum temperature of 27.8 C for 24 weeks. Periodic analyses were carried out every two weeks starting from day zero to determine the influence of storage on thepHand vitaminCcontent of the juice samples. Vitamin C values presented significant differences (

Investigating age-related changes in proliferation and the cell division repertoire of parenchymal reactive astrocytes.

Reactive gliosis is a complicated process involving all types of glial cells and is the therapeutic target of efforts to treat several types of neuropathologies. Parenchymal astrocytes continuously survey their microenvironment to identify even tiny abnormalities in the central nervous system (CNS) homeostasis and react rapidly to brain damage, such as following ischemia, trauma, or neurodegenerative diseases, to prevent propagation of tissue damage. Aging can play causal roles in certain astroglial dysfunctions, however, still little is known to what extent the heterogeneous reaction of astrocytes at the injury site might be impaired over the course of aging. Based on our experience with both in vitro and in vivo experimental paradigms, we describe here in detail the analysis of age-related changes in (1) proliferative response of parenchymal astrocytes within the posttraumatic cerebral cortex grey matter (GM), and (2) repertoire of their cell divisions in adherent cell culture prepared from the injured GM of young and old double transgenic GFAP-mRFP1/(FUCCI)-S/G2/M-mAG-hGeminin mice by single cell time-lapse imaging