Food safety as the conditions and measures that are necessary during production, processing, storage, distribution and preparation of food to ensure that it was safe, sound, and wholesome and fit for human consumption. ...

Food-borne disease remains major health challenge in developing countries. Cross-contamination from raw meat due to poor handling as a result of poor knowledge and practices of meat handlers is major contributing factors ...

Background: Dietary Diversity is an essential element of diet quality. It also indicates the presence of individual and household food diversity and consumption of adequate nutrient. Lactation is one of the most complex ...

Injera is a widely consumed staple fermented food in Ethiopia and is mostly made from teff. Most communities in Ethiopia like to consume teff injera but due to the high price of teff, only middle and high-income ...

Antioxidants are bioactive compounds that inhibit or delay the oxidation of molecules. It has the capacity to offset the harming impacts of free radicals in tissues. Synthetic antioxidants have been used to retard oxidative ...

Background: Under nutritionremains a global challenge because of the natural and man-made disasters and environmental changes. As a result of the poor socio-economic living standards, the magnitude of under nutritionis ...

Anchote (Coccinia abyssinica (Lam.) Cogn.) is a native Ethiopian root crop that is underutilized yet highly regarded. It is more nutritious than other tuber crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, Enset, and cassava, and ...

Background –complementary feeding is the process of starting feeding the child other foods and liquids when breast milk alone is no longer sufficient to meet the nutritional requirements of infants, along with breast ...

Introduction:- Nutrition is an important component of comprehensive care for human beings specially adolescents, since it is a period of rapid growth and maturation in human development that demands extra nutrients and ...

The gut microbiota of fish plays a key role in many biological processes of their host. However, there is lack of understanding of gut microbial dynamics of the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus L. 1758) under ...