Gluten-containing food products cause allergic reactions and intolerance in sensitive individuals, i.e., celiac disease or gluten enteropathy. Celiac disease is a disease of the immune system in which gluten is recognized as a harmful agent. The only therapy for people sensitive to gluten is a gluten-free diet. Due to their gluten-free status and s...

By Vesna Gojković Cvjetković, Željka Marjanović-Balaban, Biljana Srdić Gojković, Danijela Rajić, Milan Vukic, Milenko Smiljanić

Heavy metals are persistent environmental contaminants that pose severe risks to both ecosystems and human health mainly due to their high toxicity and bioaccumulation. These pollutants originate from natural processes like volcanic activity and human activities such as mining and industrial operations. Their non-biodegradable nature leads to bioac...

By Milan Milivojević, Anja Antanasković, Kristina Pavićević, Aleksandra Popović, Mladen Bugarčić, Katarina Trivunac, Vladimir Adamović, Vladan Živković, Zorica Lopičić

This research aimed to: a) explore how to produce fruit gels of consistent quality using cornelian cherry and different gelling agents, b) assess the nutritional and sensory qualities of the gels, and c) analyze their phenolic composition and antioxidant activity. Agar and pectin were tested as gelling agents to modify gel consistency. To achieve h...

By Božana Odžaković, Vanja Ćupina, Slavica Grujić, Staniša Latinović, Zoran Kukrić

This study aims to conduct a contrastive analysis of the use of lexical cohesive devices in research articles written in English and in Serbian. The analysis was conducted on a sample of twenty abstracts of English and Serbian research articles in the field of chemical engineering. The model taken as the framework for this analysis was the one prop...

By Vesna Cvijetinović

The leaky dielectric model from electrohydrodynamics (EHD) was incorporated into the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software called OpenFOAM®. Based on the used literature, it can be said that this implementation of the mentioned model is the most complete. Three sets of two-phase simulations were done. The first set was one- dimensional. I...

By Stefan A. Bošković, Aleksandar Karač, Slobodan B. Vrhovac, Aleksandar Belić, Branko Bugarski

To evaluate the surface water quality of the Drina River basin, samples were collected from the main river and its tributaries at selected monitoring sites. A total of 17 samples were collected from various locations during the years 2023 and 2024. Various physicochemical parameters and concentrations of heavy metals were analyzed. Overall, most te...

By Jelena Vuković, Slavko Smiljanić

This paper presents experimental investigations of the efficiency of an open-type refrigerated display cabinet used to store food at temperatures between –1 and +7 °C. The purpose of the study was to increase the efficiency of the open-type cabinet by improving its design. The cabinet has five shelves for food products with lengths of 350...

By Tadas Vengalis, Vadim Mokshin

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By Milan Vukic

Fat soluble vitamins, including vitamin D, are not sufficiently represented in the human diet. Although vitamin D can be synthesized in the body by direct exposure of the body to the sun, often people don’t get enough sun exposure to assure enough vitamin D. Previous research has established that vitamin D deficiency is considered to be a hig...

By Tanja Lužaić, Kristina Kozomora, Milan Sredojević, Igor Antić, Ranko Romanić

The concentration of copper (Cu) was determined in 110 samples of fruit (n = 31) and vegetable products (n = 79), collected during the period from January 2015 to December 2019. Fruit and vegetable products originate from 17 countries, including Serbia. Samples were analysed by inductively coupled plasma – optical emission spectrometry (ICP-O...

By Milena Lazović, Vladimir Tomović, Biljana Bajić, Isidora Kecojević, Danica Mrkajić, Ana Joksimović, Mila Tomović, Aleksandra Martinović, Dragan Vujadinović, Milenko Smiljanić, Vesna Đorđević