Vitamin Information Center

The Ear, Nose, Mouth, and Throat
Volume 1’s first section is the “The Ear, Nose,
Mouth, and Throat.” Through these structures the
body receives auditory, olfactory, and gustatory
sensory information—sounds, smells, and tastes.
The throat does double duty as the conduit to
carry both air and nutrition, essential sustenance
for the body, and also makes possible the uniquely
human form of communication—speech.
The functions of these sensory organs and
structures overlap and integrate with each other
in ways such that the loss of one sensory system
affects others. Speech is difficult without the ability
to hear, for example, and the sensory pathways
for smell and taste are so intertwined that
both networks become impaired when one or the
other does not function properly. Olfactory nerve
fibers are capable of detecting thousands of odors,
enhancing the brain’s ability to interpret hundreds
of flavors with input from only four basic taste
qualities (sweet, sour, salt, and bitter).
The sense of touch resides in specialized nerves
that populate the surface of the skin in varying
concentrations to provide different levels of tactile
response. The lips and fingertips, for example, are
exquisitely sensitive, while the surfaces of the
arms and legs are less responsive to touch. The
structures of the inner ear also regulate the body’s
balance, integrating with the nervous system as
well as the musculoskeletal system (as anyone
who has found it challenging to walk after spinning
in circles well knows).

Louisville-based Eldorado Artesian Springs Inc. announced the Kroger Co.’s King Soopers and City Market divisions will carry the spring water bottler’s Organic Vitamin Charged Spring Water.

The 141-store King Soopers and the 38-store City Market plan to carry all six flavors of the product, Eldorado officials said.

Eldorado said its Organic Vitamin Charged Spring Water also is available in Albertson’s, Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, K&G and “one of the nation’s premier natural foods supermarkets.”

Shares of Eldorado (OTCBB: ELDO) climbed 10 cents, or 5.9 percent, to close at $1.80. Shares traded at more than six times the company’s normal volume.

Steaks from beef beasts fed a diet abundant in wet distillers grains may advance an blue or off-flavor eventually in the grocery store, but the accession of vitamin E to cattle’s augment appears to abate the problem, according to University of Nebraska-Lincoln research.

Wet distillers grains, a byproduct of the booze and corn-processing industries, are an economical beasts feed, and one that Nebraska is decidedly adapted to yield advantage of, accustomed its abiding blah accumulation and absolute beasts industry.

“Distillers atom is a abundant augment for cattle,” said UNL meat scientist Chris Calkins.

However, UNL analysis begin that wet distillers grains access the bulk of polyunsaturated blubbery acids–PUFAs–in beef. And that leads to faster oxidation.

The quicker blaze doesn’t assume to amount with vacuum-sealed beef, but in the UNL research, it did affect meat that was repackaged assimilate cream trays, covered in artificial blanket and set out in apish grocery abundance displays.

“It causes the meat to about-face amber added bound and it can advance off flavors,” Calkins said. “We apish retail display, so added plan is bare to admeasurement the blush and acidity changes beneath absolute retail conditions. Some accepted cuts of beef are acceptable awash afore blush and acidity differences would occur.”

“It’s harder to call off-flavor. There was a altered acidity in some steaks that some panelists didn’t like–usually if vitamin E was not included in the diet,” said Calkins of the acknowledgment of tasters in the research.

Tenderloins and flat-iron cuts were a lot of affected to the birthmark and off flavors. Ribeyes seemed added aggressive to the oxidation.

The college allotment of wet distillers grains fed to beef, the greater the impact. The livestock activated were fed a diet consisting of up to 30 percent of distillers grains on a dry amount basis. “Not anybody is agriculture that abundant distillers grains in the diet, which may be low abundant to abbreviate blush and acidity issues,” Calkins said.

“We accept some basic after-effects now that advance there’s a way to abode those abeyant problems,” the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources scientist said.

The band-aid is to add vitamin E to beef cattle’s diets during their finishing phase, he said.

“It suppresses or controls that oxidation,” Calkins said.

The vitamin E accept to be added to the augment to get it into the membranes area some of the PUFAs gather; artlessly injecting it into meat wouldn’t be accepted to work.

Calkins said his analysis next will attack to actuate how abundant vitamin E accept to be added to the augment to be effective. To analysis the concept, antecedent analysis acclimated a almost top dosage that would amount $1 to $1.50 per head. Since this represents an added amount to producers, Calkins said, it’s important to access at a cost-effective advocacy that after-effects in a artefact that meets consumers’ expectations.

“We charge to be absolutely accurate that we can assure our barter that the shelf activity of the artefact is traveling to be as acceptable as it’s consistently been,” Calkins said.

Calkins said he aswell will analyze the appulse of altered types of packaging on how bound meat turns from the ablaze red consumers attending for to a less-appetizing brown.

He aswell will try to analysis these class after-effects in a retail setting.

“To date, there accept not been a lot of complaints on shelf activity of beef even admitting we apperceive a acceptable allotment of the beasts are getting fed distillers grains,” said Calkins. “So we charge to apperceive the consequence of the botheration beneath bartering situations. It’s to our advantage to be pro-active in anecdotic abeyant problems and alms solutions.”

The analysis will abide with beasts on augment this summer, with added after-effects to be aggregate through next abatement and winter.

Calkins’ analysis is accurate by the Nebraska Beef Council, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, and beneath UNL’s Agricultural Analysis Division, a allotment of the university’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

WheyUp, a sports beverage company based in Gilbert, has signed a deal for Vitamin World to sell its drinks in more than 400 retail locations across the nation.

“Part of our distribution strategy is to increase the number of retail locations where WheyUp is sold, so we’re pleased to be partnering with Vitamin World,” said WheyUp inventor and co-founder Erik Rothchild. “Vitamin World is a true heavyweight in the nutritional supplement industry.”

WheyUp products combine 20 grams of whey protein with an energy formula in a sugar-free, noncarbonated beverage. WheyUp will be sold at Vitamin World in ready-to-drink, 16-ounce plastic bottles and 12-packs. It comes in two flavors: wild berry and tropical citrus.

The deal with Vitamin World comes on the heels of an agreement with Importive SA to distribute WheyUp products in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. WheyUp also recently inked a deal for International Health Investments to distribute its products across Australia.

To help keep tired players from putting their controllers down, Japanese game peripheral maker Cybergadget has released a new line of vitamin supplements aimed at gamers.

“Game Sapuri” promises to keep gamers at their best, and is available in two flavors: Blue Berry, which aims to keep players refreshed after epic play sessions, and DHA, which boosts concentration while playing. Packs sell for 880 yen (about $9), and includes enough for 15 days of use (you take two a day).

Since Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater included Japan’s favorite energy bar CalorieMate, one must wonder if  the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots could see Snake take his daily dose of vitamins.

We all need water to live. But does bottled vitamin-enhanced water give us an extra boost beyond tap or regular bottled water, or does it just lighten our wallets? A glance at the beverage aisle of any grocery store reveals the extreme growth in popularity of these enhanced waters.

They are available in a wide variety of exotic flavors like passionfruit citrus and strawberry kiwi and boast added vitamin content.

Some unexpected ingredients, like sugar, can also be included. And consumers shouldn’t assume that just because it’s a water-based beverage, it’s calorie-free. The caloric content can range from a low of about 10 per serving to about 40 or 50 per serving. That may not sound like much, but that means that just one 20-ounce bottle, which is listed on one label as 2.5 servings, can mean an extra hundred calories.

Herbs can also be included in some enhanced waters. People taking prescription or over-the-counter medications should check with their doctor to make sure that the herbs won’t interact with their regular medicines, cautions Carole Mabry, a registered dietitian with Spartanburg Regional Medical Center.

Mabry says that if a person is eating a fairly well-balanced diet or taking a vitamin supplement, enhanced waters are probably unnecessary. Regular water or calorie-free flavored waters are probably a better alternative, but the enhanced waters sound like a better choice than a regular soda, she says.

If a person is sick and unable to eat or drink or has an extended illness, enhanced water might be beneficial in terms of keeping them hydrated and providing some vitamin content, she says.

For people who drink them in moderation, enhanced water might offer a good way to break up the monotony of drinking plain water.

Stephanie Coates of Boiling Springs began drinking Vitamin Water’s enhanced beverage about six months ago. She bruises easily and has been told by a doctor that she needs to get plenty of Vitamin C. She prefers the blueberry-pomegranate flavor, which has 250 percent of the recommended daily allowance of Vitamin C per bottle. But she also enjoys other flavors, such as apple-raspberry and dragonfruit.

“I’ve had a bunch of them, and they’re all really good,” she says.

Coates drinks a lot of water after a First Place class she attended at her church emphasized the importance of doing so. She drinks one bottle of Vitamin Water at work and then refills it with plain tap water to drink throughout her workday. That way, she says, the cost (about $1.25 a bottle) and calories don’t become as much of a factor.

She’s tried some of the calorie-free flavored waters but didn’t enjoy them as much as the Vitamin Water.

“They tasted weaker, like barely-flavored water,” she explains.

Following are the calorie and nutrient contents for an 8-ounce serving of several popular enhanced beverages. Most bottles have 2.5 to 4 of these servings:

Propel Fitness Water:

10 calories

Vitamin C: 10 percent of recommended daily allowance

Vitamin E: 10 percent

Niacin: 25 percent

Vitamin B6: 25 percent

Vitamin B12: 25 percent

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