relation: https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/14437/
title: Futterwahlversuche mit Nagern zur Überprüfung der Qualität von Produkten aus biologischem und konventionellem Anbau
creator: Velimirov, Alberta
subject:  Food security, food quality and human health
description: There is a substantial amount of evidence to support the concept, that animals are  capable of choosing a balanced diet. This capability is used in food preference tests  with laboratory animals. So far it has been postulated, that for animals to be able to  choose, at least one of the offered foods has to be nutritionally unbalanced, otherwise  there would be no benefit in choosing (Forbes and Kyriazaks 1995). But in organic  quality research food preference tests with laboratory rats have shown, that even in  cases of comparable nutritional value significant preferences took place, when the test  products originated from different growing systems. Examples are comparative studies  with wheat, carrots, beet root, celeriac and apples of organic vs conventional origin.  The aim of these animal feeding studies is to define product properties beyond  chemical composition, due to potential interactions within and between biological  systems. In a current project (http://qaccp.coreportal.org/) effects on the quality of  carrots within the whole food chain are investigated. Preliminary results of food preference  tests with laboratory rats and mice are mentioned.
publisher: Verlag Dr. Köster
date: 2009
type: Conference paper, poster, etc. 
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: de
identifier: /id/eprint/14437/1/Velimirov_14437.pdf
identifier:    Velimirov, Alberta    (2009) Futterwahlversuche mit Nagern zur Überprüfung der Qualität von Produkten aus biologischem und konventionellem Anbau.       Paper at:   10. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau, ETH Zürich, 11.-13. Februar 2009.