3 potential articles:
Electrolyte imbalance - This article is rated as a high importance start article by WikiProject Medicine. There is very little content on this article, and a few contradictory statements throughout. The most alarming thing that I would hope to fix is the lack of sources - this article doesn't site anything. There are many credible sources that discuss electrolyte imbalance that I would hope to use if I edit this article.
Insulin resistance - This article is rated as a high importance start article by both WikiProject Medicine and WikiProject Pharmacology. I could add more medical references for verification, which it is need of. The content is good, but there is definitely a lot of information about this subject that could be added.
Hyperlipidemia - This article is rated as a high importance start article by WikiProject Medicine. As of now, this article does not have much content. However, I did find some credible sources that could provide information when doing a quick google search. It is also an interesting topic that we did not really cover in lecture, so it would be interesting to learn more about it through this project.
Final wikipedia assignment:
editDate Sugar Date sugar is a sugar product made up mostly of fructose and glucose. It is a brown, and resembles brown sugar. However, date sugar is made from a completely different process than brown sugar. Made from the date palm plant, date sugar is a less refined sugar than typical white sugar. 60% of the weight of the date palm fruit is sucrose, and it has a higher sugar content than both cane sugar and beet sugar[1]. Date sugar is considered an alternative to refined white sugar, and studies have shown that it can be substituted in many foods and beverages without much loss in flavor. [2][3]
Production Date sugar is made by first making a paste from raw dates. Then, the paste is mixed with a substance called maltodextrin (a common food additive). This mixture is oven dried and ground into granules. The proportion of maltodextrin to date paste determines the properties of the sugar[4]. There are many recipes for making date sugar at home, but it can also be purchased. There are many methods looking to automate the process of date sugar production. Dates have a few stages of development: khalaal, rutab, and tamr. The best dates to make into date sugar are tamr dates, as they have a very low moisture content (about 30%) and are very sweet[5]. Studies are currently testing on how best to determine sugar content of a date. This could help identify the best dates to use for date sugar.
Nutrition Dates have a great deal of fiber. Although a lot of this is lost when dates are converted to date sugar, there is still fiber that remains. In addition, dates are low in fat and protein. They are a great source of energy because of the high carbohydrate content. In addition, dates have lots of vitamins and minerals, especially vitamins B and C. There are also many antioxidants in dates[6]. Although all of these health benefits are less prominent after dates are converted to date sugar, they are still beneficial. In addition, date sugar lacks the chemicals from processed, refined, white sugar. Date sugar produced at home retains even more of the health benefits of dates than date sugar purchased in store.
Sources
edit- ^ "Dates as a potential substrate for single cell protein production". Enzyme and Microbial Technology. 1 (3): 180–182. 1 July 1979. doi:10.1016/0141-0229(79)90025-5. ISSN 0141-0229.
- ^ "A new method of producing date powder granules: Physicochemical characteristics of powder". Journal of Food Engineering. 87 (3): 416–421. 1 August 2008. doi:10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2007.12.024. ISSN 0260-8774.
- ^ Amerinasab, Asal; Labbafi, Mohsen; Mousavi, Mohammad; Khodaiyan, Faramarz (1 October 2015). "Development of a novel yoghurt based on date liquid sugar: physicochemical and sensory characterization". Journal of Food Science and Technology. 52 (10): 6583–6590. doi:10.1007/s13197-015-1716-4. ISSN 0022-1155.
- ^ "A new method of producing date powder granules: Physicochemical characteristics of powder". Journal of Food Engineering. 87 (3): 416–421. 1 August 2008. doi:10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2007.12.024. ISSN 0260-8774.
- ^ Fadel, Moustafa A. (2008). "Sugar Content Estimation of Date (Phoenix dactylifern L.) Fruits in Tamr Stage". Agricultural Engineering International: CIGR Journal. ISSN 1682-1130.
- ^ Al-Farsi*, Mohamed Ali; Lee, Chang Yong (21 October 2008). "Nutritional and Functional Properties of Dates: A Review". Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 48 (10): 877–887. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080%2F10408390701724264.
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