Essays on Glucosamine

Environmental and Nutritional Requirements of Lactobacillus casei

Lactobacillus species have attracted considerable attention during the past few years due to the health benefits to the gastrointestinal tract when they are added as probiotics to food products such as yogurt and other fermented milk drinks (Broadbent, Larsen, Deibel, & Steele, 2010). In general, Lactobacillus species exhibit very complex nutritional and environmental requirements for optimal growth. Particularly, Lactobacillus casei is a rod shaped, aciduric (prefers acidic environments), facultative (capable of living in aerobic or anaerobic conditions) and mesophilic (temperature range between 15-40°C) lactic acid bacterium. These characteristics allow its isolation from different environments including fermented milk, meat or vegetable ...

Bone soaked in vinegar

Observation on Bending The notable observation when the bone was bent: It just bends easily. Upon application of pressure on the soaked bone on vinegar, the bone bent easily since the vinegar had eliminated the calcium content which is responsible for the toughness and or hardness of the bone.

Baked Bone

Observation on Bending On bending the bone after baking, it was inflexible, hard as compared to the one soaked in vinegar. An underlying reason is that water that initially was present was drained by the heat during the baking process. On smashing the bone it broke easily into ...