Food plays a significant role in the environmental impacts of human activities. However, many agro-industrial processes are multi-product systems and their impacts need to be distributed between the different co-products in order to properly address two major issues: (1) prevention of food spoilage and food losses and (2) the eco-design of food systems, from processing up to recommendations for changes in Western diets. As a culturally and nutritionally central component of most human diets, milk is critical because processing is a preservation issue and most dairy products follow from separations, thereby generating co-products.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe haemoglobin content in meat is consistently associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer, whereas calcium may play a role as a chemopreventive agent. Using rodent models, calcium salts have been shown to prevent the promotion of haem-induced and red meat-induced colorectal carcinogenesis by limiting the bioavailability of the gut luminal haem iron. Therefore, this study aimed to compare impacts of dietary calcium provided as calcium salts or dairy matrix on gut homoeostasis perturbations by high haeminic or non-haeminic iron intakes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfant formulas (IF), the sole adequate substitute to human milk, undergo several thermal treatments during production that can damage milk proteins and promote the formation of Maillard reaction products, modifying nutritional and sensory properties. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a minimal processing route based on membrane filtration associated with different levels of heat treatment, on the odor, taste, texture, and color attributes of IF, then to compare with those of commercial milks. Three experimental IF (produced with membrane filtration associated with low [T], medium [T], or high thermal treatments [T]) were evaluated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) provides a fascinating platform for engineering flat bands and inducing correlated phenomena. By designing the stacking architecture of graphene layers, twisted multilayer graphene can exhibit different symmetries with rich tunability. For example, in twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene (tMBG) which breaks the C symmetry, transport measurements reveal an asymmetric phase diagram under an out-of-plane electric field, exhibiting correlated insulating state and ferromagnetic state respectively when reversing the field direction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecent studies of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures and superlattices have shown intriguing quantum phenomena, but these have been largely explored only in the moderate carrier density regime. Here, we report the probe of high-temperature fractal Brown-Zak (BZ) quantum oscillations through magnetotransport in the extreme doping regimes by applying a newly developed electron beam doping technique. This technique gives access to both ultrahigh electron and hole densities beyond the dielectric breakdown limit in graphene/BN superlattices, enabling the observation of nonmonotonic carrier-density dependence of fractal BZ states and up to fourth-order fractal BZ features despite strong electron-hole asymmetry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study was initiated and conducted by several laboratories, 3 of the main cosmetic ingredient suppliers and 4 brands of cosmetics in France. Its objective is to show the interest and robustness of coupling chemical and genetic analyses in the identification of plant species. In this study, the Lavandula genus was used.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMilk microfiltration process plays a key role in the dairy industry. Crossflow microfiltration of skimmed milk using a membrane with 0.1 µm mean pore size is widely used to fractionate the two main groups of dairy proteins: casein micelles (~150 nm) and serum proteins (~2-15 nm).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBACKGROUNDHigh circulating levels of ceramides (Cer) and sphingomyelins (SM) are associated with cardiometabolic diseases. The consumption of whole fat dairy products, naturally containing such polar lipids (PL), is associated with health benefits, but the impact on sphingolipidome remains unknown.METHODSIn a 4-week randomized controlled trial, 58 postmenopausal women daily consumed milk PL-enriched cream cheese (0, 3, or 5 g of milk PL).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA recent work revealed that egg white (EW) at 45 °C exhibits powerful bactericidal activity against serovar Enteritidis, which is surprisingly little affected by removal of the >10 kDa EW proteins. Here, we sought to identify the major EW factors responsible for this bactericidal activity by fractionating EW using ultrafiltration and nanofiltration and by characterizing the physicochemical and antimicrobial properties of the resulting fractions. In particular, 22 peptides were identified by nano-LC/MS-MS and the bactericidal activities of representative peptides (with predicted antimicrobial activity) were further assessed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo-dimensional heterostructures composed of layers with slightly different lattice vectors exhibit new periodic structure known as moiré lattices, which, in turn, can support novel correlated and topological phenomena. Moreover, moiré superstructures can emerge from multiple misaligned moiré lattices or inhomogeneous strain distributions, offering additional degrees of freedom in tailoring electronic structure. High-resolution imaging of the moiré lattices and superstructures is critical for understanding the emerging physics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMilk pre-processing steps-storage at 4 °C (with durations of 48, 72 or 96 h) and methods for microbiological stabilization of milk (1.4 μm microfiltration, thermization, thermization + bactofugation, pasteurization) are performed industrially before 0.1 µm-microfiltration (MF) of skimmed milk to ensure the microbiological quality of final fractions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA pyridinium substituted dithienylethene derivative was used for the first time as an efficient photoreducing agent of two different substrates. This reaction exhibits high catalytic yields due to the continuous regeneration of the initial state of the photochromic molecule.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe rheological properties and microstructure of dairy gels involve the connectivity between milk fat globules (MFG) and casein micelles that is affected by technological processes such as milk homogenization and heat treatment. The underlying mechanisms require further quantification of the interactions at the nanoscale level to be fully understood and controlled. In this study, we examined the adhesion of homogenized MFG to milk proteins and evaluated the role of ultra-high temperature (UHT) heat treatment and pH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFolate deficiencies are widespread around the world. Promoting consumption of folate-rich foods could be a sustainable option to alleviate this problem. However, these foods are not always available.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHypothesis: The effective contribution of interfacial properties to the rheology of foams is a source of many open questions. Film dynamics during topological T1 changes in foams, essentially studied for low molecular weight surfactants, and scarcely for proteins, could connect interfacial properties to protein foam rheology.
Experiments: We modified whey protein isolate (WPI), and its purified major protein β-lactoglobulin (β-lg) by powder pre-conditioning and dry-heating in order to obtain a broad variety of interfacial properties.
High mobility single and few-layer graphene sheets are in many ways attractive as nanoelectronic circuit hosts but lack energy gaps, which are essential to the operation of field-effect transistors. One of the methods used to create gaps in the spectrum of graphene systems is to form long period moiré patterns by aligning the graphene and hexagonal boron nitride ( h-BN) substrate lattices. Here, we use planar tunneling devices with thin h-BN barriers to obtain direct and accurate tunneling spectroscopy measurements of the energy gaps in single-layer and bilayer graphene- h-BN superlattice structures at charge neutrality (first Dirac point) and at integer moiré band occupancies (second Dirac point, SDP) as a function of external electric and magnetic fields and the interface twist angle.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe bis(di-tert-butyl-aminophenyl)amine ligand H3LN,N,N was reacted with Mn(ii), Co(ii), Fe(iii) and Cu(ii) salts in air. The ligand undergoes oxidative transformations, which involve intra and intermolecular C-N and N-N bond formations. A rare aromatic C-N bond cleavage leading to a C-O bond has also been observed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe first cobalt-catalysed cycloisomerisation of alkynoic acids is reported, thanks to the design of a well-defined diradical cobalt(iii) catalyst, in the absence of any additives. The high efficiency, regioselectivity and chemoselectivity are comparable to those of noble metal-based systems. The unique reactivity might be attributed to second coordination sphere effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHeterostructures can be assembled from atomically thin materials by combining a wide range of available van der Waals crystals, providing exciting possibilities for designer electronics . In many cases, beyond simply realizing new material combinations, interlayer interactions lead to emergent electronic properties that are fundamentally distinct from those of the constituent layers . A critical parameter in these structures is the interlayer coupling strength, but this is often not easy to determine and is typically considered to be a fixed property of the system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe sterically hindered bis(phenol)-dipyrrin ligands LH and LH were reacted with 1 equiv of copper(II) under ambient conditions to produce the copper radical complexes [Cu(L)] and [Cu(L)]. Their X-ray crystal structures show relatively short C-O bond distances (mean bond distances of 1.287 and 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBioactive lipids of the milk fat globule membrane become concentrated in two co-products of the butter industry, buttermilk and butterserum. Their lipid composition is detailed here with special emphasis on sphingolipid composition of nutritional interest, determined using GC, HPLC and tandem mass spectrometry. Butterserum was 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThree copper(II) complexes of the (R,R)-N,N'-bis(3,5-di-tert-butyl-2-aminobenzylidene)-1,2-diaminocyclohexane ligand, namely [Cu( L)], [Cu( LH)] and [Cu( LH )] , were prepared and structurally characterized. In [Cu( LH )] the copper ion lies in an octahedral geometry with the aniline groups coordinated in equatorial positions. In [Cu( L)] the anilines are deprotonated (anilido moieties) and coordinated to an almost square-planar metal ion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe sterically hindered bis(2-aminophenyl)dipyrrin ligand HL was prepared. X-ray diffraction discloses a bifurcated hydrogen bonding network involving the dipyrrin and one aniline ring. The reaction of HL with one equivalent of nickel(II) in the air produces a paramagnetic neutral complex, which absorbs intensively in the Vis-NIR region.
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