Lactose

Introduction The world business condition has been challenging since 2008. After researching on Irish market, we found that lactose intolerance offers excellent potential for increasing non-dairy products sales. Even in 2008, Alpro had a 5.52% (Figure 2, Appendix 1) increase in turnover. Therefore, we analyze Alpro’s market including how customers’ demands influence its behaviours in this thesis. Furthermore, we summarize the competitors of Alpro, and the impact of economic environment on its…

From the patient, unknown bacteria #618 was identified to be Escherichia coli. It is apart of the Enterobacteriae genus that according to Brown’s Microbiological Applications1 are gram-negative bacteria that usually live inside the intestines of animals and humans. The organism can also live in the vagina and urethra. The data collected after isolating the organism and executing a series of tests have confirmed previous observations of E. coli in past scientific history. For the majority of…

Professor, I found that in order to identify and distinguish any form of bacteria such as Serratia sp. and Enterobacter sp. a number of assessments should be conducted. Majority of bacteria’s has enzymes allowing it to break down nucleic acids and the bacteria and utilize the resulting nucleotides to produce their own nucleic acids. DNase is an enzyme that hydrolyzes DNA. The existence of DNase entails certain strains/species of bacteria and may be utilized for typing. A DNase assessment is…

photosynthesis), fructose (found in honey) and lactose (found in milk). The union of two monosaccharaides forms disaccharides, and his best-known representatives are sucrose and lactose. Sucrose consists of a glucose molecule and a fructose molecule. Sucrose is the sugar we consume at home, which we use in our coffee, juices, pastries etc. This carbohydrate can be found mainly in the sugarcane and sugar beets. Lactose formed by one molecule of glucose and one lactose molecule. It is the sugar…

only infants had this ability, as they depended on milk for survival (Vandenplas 1). As the number of people that are lactose-tolerant has now outnumbered the number of people that are lactose intolerant, we needed a label for each group of people. Thus, the term lactose intolerant was coined in the 1960’s, showing it was a very recent discovery (Lukito et al. 1). The number of lactose intolerant people has been steadily declining over the years, and for those that have the condition, there are…

motility because there was no growth outside of the initial stab. I next performed the phenol red broth fermentation tests. These were only left in the incubators for twenty-four hours because they produced a result right away. Both broths glucose and lactose had changed to the color yellow. This happened because the ph decreased causing the color change from red to yellow. The change of the color from red to yellow indicated acid, however no bubbles had been present in the small tube. So gas is…

safety or health concerns. GMOs can be the cause of a rising Health related problems such as Celiac disease, Candida, Developing a lactose intolerance; Other problems GMOs can have an effect on non-genetically modified: plants and animals. GMO’s are a great problem and unless Monsanto addresses these issues it should be taken off the market.…

is gram negative, and will appear pink as it can metabolize lactose; in blood agar it will grow using gamma hemolysis, causing no change to its color or lysing the blood cells on the plate (Bergey et al., 1957). E. aerogenes can grow in both glucose minimal media and Simmons citrate agar, showing that it can use glucose and citrate, respectively, as its only carbon source (Lee et al., 1991). It can successfully ferment glucose and lactose with both acid and gas. E. aerogenes is halotolerant with…

BIOMOLECULES It is from the foods we eat that we get the essential compounds that our body needs. These types of compounds are used by our body for energy and growth. In this chapter, you will learn about biomolecules and their functions in the human body. iEngage Nutrition Facts Objectives To examine nutrition facts from food labels To recognize the importance of knowing the food labels Materials food label paper pen Procedures 1. Examine carefully the nutrition facts of…

Prokaryotes can be recognized as a single-celled organism that lack the extensive internal compartments. Unlike eukaryotes, the prokaryotes concentrated their genetic materials in a small portion of cell’s cytoplasm known as nucleoid. Almost entire prokaryotic genome is contained in a single circular DNA strand that is supercoiled. Some additional genes are located on an independent small, circular or linear plasmids which coding for extra properties likes antibiotic resistance (Brown, 2002).…