(n.) The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese.
(n.) The coagulated part of any liquid.
(n.) The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as the broccoli and cauliflower.
(v. t.) To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.
(v. i.) To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whey
Example Sentences:
(1) In respective curds 35.6, 47.1 and 57.7% of Aflatoxin M1 are recovered and 64.4, 52.9 and 42.3% in respective whey.
(2) Cases tended to consume slightly more rice, but less protein-rich foods (i.e., bean curd, meat, eggs) and vegetables than did controls.
(3) It is suggested that this carbohydrate facilitates the adhesion of starter bacteria to the cheese-curd matrix and that during the initial stages of syneresis this serves to prevent their expulsion from the curd with the whey.
(4) When the curd was heated gradually to attain the cooking temperature (50 degrees C), numbers of L. monocytogenes increased by approximately 40 to 45% over those in inoculated milk.
(5) This result was confirmed by radioimmunoassay of dry curd cottage cheese and whey.
(6) The reduced pH of cheese curd, which reaches 4.5 to 5.2, depending on the variety, affects at least the following characteristics of curd and cheese: syneresis (and hence cheese composition), retention of calcium (which affects cheese texture), retention and activity of coagulant (which influences the extent and type of proteolysis during ripening), the growth of contaminating bacteria.
(7) This is a Bakewell tart, but with coconut frangipane and lemon curd instead of the usual sponge and raspberry jam.
(8) These results suggested the binding sites, or DPH-sensitive, or L-type, calcium channels in curde membranes from rat cardiac muscle and whole brain are directly or indirectly modulated by endogenous GTP-binding protein, but not by various endogenous protein kinases in these crude membranes.
(9) Lemon curd Most lemon curd recipes call for at least one whole egg.
(10) The separated milk whey and curd were hydrolyzed by acid or alkali and each lipid extract was subjected to HPLC analysis.
(11) The home remedies tried by mothers were, isabgol husk with curd (30.55%), ghee with tea (28.70%) water boiled with mint leaves (25.92%), local ghutti (22.22%) and unripe mango juice (16.66%).
(12) "Trying to control all the variables – the temperature, the milk, the pH, the time you cut the curds – becomes mindboggling.
(13) Four Holstein male calves each were fitted with a reentrant duodenal cannula and fed a low heat milk replacer with or without an oxalate-NaOH buffer known to prevent curd formation in the abomasum.
(14) Milk containing L. monocytogenes was coagulated with gluconic acid, HCl, or rennet, and cottage cheese curd was prepared.
(15) However, milk coagulated enzymatically and the curd shrinkage was related to salt-dependent acidity.
(16) Most of the curd samples showed a positive phosphatase test, indicating production from raw milk.
(17) 3 Fill the pancake with spoonful of passionfruit curd, spreading it out roughly, and top with a dollop of chocolate mixture.
(18) On the other hand, the mutagen-negative diet was significantly frequent in fresh vegetables, cooked potatoes, cooked carrots, milk, bean curd, devils' tongue and confections.
(19) Fungal species which can cause thread mould defects were also found in the cheese factory environment, on cheesemaking equipment, in air, and in curd and whey, providing a wide range of potential sources of contamination.
(20) The milk products studied were: raw fresh milk, nonfat milk, full fat dried milk "Vitalact 1" and dietetic curds.
Peanut
Definition:
(n.) The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The epithelium of Brunner's gland stained intensely with Ricinus communis agglutinin-I (RCA-I), succinylated-WGA (S-WGA) and wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA), moderately with Bandeirea simplicifolia agglutinin-I (BS-I), Concanavalia ensiformis agglutinin (Con A) peanut agglutinin (PNA) and Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I (UEA-I) and occasionally with Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA), Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) and soybean agglutinin (SBA).
(2) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
(3) Unfortunately, peanut reaction is not outgrown and remains a life-long threat.
(4) Histochemical and immunocytochemical staining of the outgrowths with reagents that depict epithelial, myoepithelial, and lactating alveolar cells (peanut lectin alone, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to rat caseins) indicate similar cell compositions and arrangements for all outgrowths irrespective of their source; these are also similar to the mammary glands of the perphenazine-stimulated or lactating hosts.
(5) The purification entails cell lysis and solubilization of gpL115 with the detergent Nonidet P-40, sequential affinity chromatography on lentil lectin-Sepharose, wheat germ lectin-Sepharose, and, after treatment with sialidase, on peanut lectin-Sepharose.
(6) Fluorescein-coupled peanut agglutinin (PNA) has been used at the single-cell level to study mouse lymphocyte subpopulations.
(7) However, while he considers the stock undervalued, the hedge fund boss said the software firm had missed a string of opportunities under Ballmer's "Charlie Brown management", referring to the hapless star of the Peanuts cartoon strip.
(8) Ammoniation of corn, peanuts, cottonseed, and meals to alter the toxic and carcinogenic effects of aflatoxin contamination has been the subject of intense research effort by scientists in various government agencies and universities, both in the United States and abroad.
(9) Vacuolar or intraluminal binding of peanut lectin was found to be more sensitive than PAS reaction for detecting early secretory activity.
(10) Although reactivity with Ulex europaeus agglutinin I (UEA-I) was not markedly reduced by alpha-L-fucosidase digestion, an affinity for peanut agglutinin (PNA) was seen after fucosidase digestion in the cells from secretors.
(11) The binding of 5 lectins (wheat germ, Dolichos bifluros, peanut, soybean, and Ulex europeus) was found to be independent of the stage of differentiation; "pre-differentiated" columnar cells which had prominent microvilli and no or few mucous secretory granules had identical staining patterns as well-differentiated goblet cells with large numbers of secretory granules.
(12) Combination of CA19-9 assay with the upper limit set at 50 u ml-1 and the peanut lectin assay improved the sensitivity to 85% with only a slight fall in specificity (85%).
(13) In a group of 335 patients with primary breast carcinoma the presence of immunoreactive carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and the binding of the lectin peanut agglutinin (PNA) in the primary carcinoma and in axillary lymph node metastases were investigated.
(14) Human thymocytes were separated by peanut agglutinin (PNA) into PNA+ and PNA- cell fractions, and directly oxidized by the combined action of the enzymes neuraminidase and galactose oxidase (NAGO).
(15) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
(16) (2) Individuals having IgE-mediated reactions to legume proteins, for example peanut and soybean, do not respond to the corresponding oil derived from those substances.
(17) Sialidase-induced desialylation of these natural substrates unmasks saccharides that are specifically recognized by the peanut agglutinin lectin (PNA).
(18) Sixteen United Kingdom analytical laboratories participated in an evaluation of 3 commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits for analysis of aflatoxin in peanut butter.
(19) It was one of the fake tongue extensions from The Exorcist, with a note saying, 'Just stick a dab of peanut butter on the end and put it on.'
(20) However, between the mortality rates of PLC and the intake of corn, and peanut oil, positive correlations were noted.