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Sylvia Rose
Feb 65 min read
Structures of Starch: Amylose & Amylopectin
Starch is a carbohydrate indispensable to food, the environment and plant biology. It's an energy reserve for plants, consisting mainly...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 66 min read
Carbohydrates: Sugars of Nature & Health
Carbohydrates are essential macromolecules important to human health and the natural environment. They range from simple monosaccharides...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 63 min read
Escherichia coli (E. coli): The Good Bacteria
Escherichia coli or E. coli are a benefit in the microbial world. Many strains are good for human health and the natural environment....
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 56 min read
Ammonium (NH+4): Nitrogen Needs of Plants
Ammonium is an ion integral to biology, ecological processes, agriculture, industry and human nature. Close to its gaseous parent ammonia...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 55 min read
Feed the Yeast: Nutrients for Microbe Health
Yeasts metabolize nutrients like nitrogen, biotin (vitamin H) and thiamin (B1) for optimal health in the competitive microworld. They're...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 43 min read
Candida albicans: Nature of the Yeast
Candida albicans is a common yeast dwelling in humans and the natural environment. Usually unnoticed unless pathogenic, it's found in...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 43 min read
Fermentable & Non-Fermentable Sugars
Sugars provide energy and influence bodily functions. They're essential to the growth of all living organisms. Simple carbohydrates,...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 45 min read
Maltose: Sweet Delight of Brewing & Energy
Maltose is a disaccharide, or double sugar, composed of two glucose molecules. Produced by a specialty enzyme, it's important to ecology,...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 34 min read
Three Types of Amylase in Digestion & Fermentation
Amylase, a primary digestive enzyme, helps decompose carbohydrates into simple sugars. It's integral to digestion and yeast -driven...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 24 min read
Five Types of Resistant Starch: Fiber & Health
Resistant starch is a carbohydrate. It doesn't digest in the small intestine but ferments in the large to provide fibrous bulk and...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 24 min read
Amylase: Starch to Sugar Enzyme of Digestion & Fermentation
Amylase is a powerful digestive enzyme, also important to fermentation. In saliva, it initiates digestion by decomposing starches into...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 17 min read
Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Queen of Yeasts
Saccharomyces cerevisiae , brewer's or baker's yeast, is undisputed Queen of yeasts. This immobile single-celled organism is popular in...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 13 min read
Digestive Enzymes: Amylase, Lipase & Protease
Amylase, lipase & protease are digestive enzymes essential to health. As biological catalysts they metabolize macronutrients into...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 14 min read
Molybdenum (Mo): Ecology & Human Health
Molybdenum (Mo) is a chemical element of great importance to nature, industry and health. A transition metal, molybdenum is also an...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 316 min read
Fermenting Green Beans: Salt, Brine & Bacteria
Fermentation is an easy, ancient process of preservation. Salt is dissolved in natural juice and/or water to make brine. Fermenting...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 313 min read
Power of Pepsin: Potent Digestive Enzymes
Pepsin is an enzyme important to digestion and health. It breaks down protein-rich foods for smooth function of the gastrointestinal (GI)...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 305 min read
Enzymes: Marvels of Nature & Human Health
Enzymes are biological catalysts in functions essential to life. They ensure smooth digestion, fuel cellular activities and help maintain...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 305 min read
Listeria Bacteria: Health and Environment
Listeria is a genus of bacteria with major effects on human health and the environment. Many Listeria bacteria are beneficial, but...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 304 min read
Lactase: Nature's Milk Digestion Enzyme
Lactase is an enzyme essential in digesting lactose , or milk sugar. A disaccharide, lactose breaks down as simple sugars glucose and...
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Sylvia Rose
Jan 304 min read
Galactose: Simple Sugar of Nature & Health
Galactose is a simple sugar or monosaccharide. It's related to glucose, with both sugars produced through the same process. Galactose is...
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