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Physical Chemistry of Nutrition and Dietary Forms
How harmful is food, which food components cause illness? And what is healthy? What should no longer be eaten? What must be eaten in order to make a...
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Mediterranean diet lowers all-cause and cardiovascular mortality for patients with metabolic syndrome
A Mediterranean-style diet (MED) can promote people lengthen the span of life and avoid atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in primary...
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Chemistry and Functionality of Processed Figs
Fig fruits are famous around the globe, especially in the Mediterranean region, owing to their versatile taste, nutrition, and bioactive compounds....
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Soil Science at the CIHEAM’s Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari in Italy
For more than 60 years, the Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM) has played a crucial role in education,...
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Introduction to Mediterranean Fruits Bio-wastes: Chemistry, Functionality and Techno-Applications
Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest of consumers in the health-enhancing effects of fruits and fruit bio-wastes. Given the association...
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Interplay of Mediterranean-diet adherence, genetic factors, and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease risk in Korea
BackgroundsMetabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) has gained attention owing to its severe complications. This study aimed...
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Forgetting how we ate: personalised nutrition and the strategic uses of history
Personalised nutrition (PN) has emerged over the past twenty years as a promising area of research in the postgenomic era and has been popularized as...
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Towards nutrition with precision: unlocking biomarkers as dietary assessment tools
Precision nutrition requires precise tools to monitor dietary habits. Yet current dietary assessment instruments are subjective, limiting our...
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Relative validity of the Planetary Health Diet Index by comparison with usual nutrient intakes, plasma food consumption biomarkers, and adherence to the Mediterranean diet among European adolescents: the HELENA study
PurposeThe EAT- Lancet Commission proposed an evidence-based global reference diet to improve human health within planetary boundaries. Recently, the...
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Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Mediterranean Sea
Information on levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the different biotic (e.g. bivalves, fish, marine mammals and sea birds) and abiotic...
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The significance of goat milk in enhancing nutrition security: a scientiometric evaluation of research studies from 1966 to 2020
BackgroundThe present study aimed to reveal scientific findings on goat milk as an instrument to combat food and nutrition insecurity, while...
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Modeling the effects of climate change on the habitat suitability of Mediterranean gorgonians
Multiple stressors, including global warming, increasingly threaten the distribution and abundance of gorgonian forests. We built species...
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Role of Mediterranean diet in endocrine diseases: a joint overview by the endocrinologist and the nutritionist
PurposeThe purpose of this review is to examine the current evidence on the potential role of Mediterranean diet (MD) in the prevention and...
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Lipidome changes due to improved dietary fat quality inform cardiometabolic risk reduction and precision nutrition
Current cardiometabolic disease prevention guidelines recommend increasing dietary unsaturated fat intake while reducing saturated fats. Here we use...
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Biological Foundations of Our Nutrition
In this introductory chapter, the foundations for the molecular understanding of food are laid. It is shown how chemical structures and molecular...
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Chemistry of Seed Spices
Historically, India has been recognized as a land of spices. Spices have been known for ages as a culinary and effective therapeutic food. The power...
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Metaphors of violence and survival: Primo Levi’s philosophy of chemistry
One of the principal dilemmas Holocaust survivors have faced is how to voice the traumatic memories that haunt them. Although in his seminal Language...
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Effects of a personalized nutrition program on cardiometabolic health: a randomized controlled trial
Large variability exists in people’s responses to foods. However, the efficacy of personalized dietary advice for health remains understudied. We...
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Chemistry of Animal Tissues
Meat forms an essential part of the non-vegetarian diet and is liked for its unique taste. It is a rich source of nutrients, providing good quality...