| Word | Description |
| macedoine | Mixture of fruits or vegetables, which is diced, or cut into even -shpaed pieces. |
| Macon | Bacon made from mutton |
| Macrocytes | Refer to large red cells found in the blood in pernicious anaemia, due to disturbed development of the red blood cell. Hence macrocytic anaemia. |
| Magma | Refers to a mixture of sugar syrup and sugar crystals which gets produced during sugar refining. |
| Magnesium | A dietary essential. It is present in all human tissues, especially bone. Involved in the utilisation and metabolism of ATP. It is present in chlorophyll and so in all green plant foods, and is generally plentiful in the diet. Deficiency in human bein |
| mailard Reaction | Two processes in foods can produce a brown colour. One has been the enzymatic oxidation of phenolic substances, such as occurs at the cut surface of an apple. The other has been a reaction between proteins or amino acids and sugars, and is variously kno |
| Maize | Grain of Zea mays. It is also called Indian corn. Staple food in may countries, made into tortillas in Latin America, made into polenta in Italy, and flaked as corn flakes commonly eaten as a breakfast cereal; various preparation in the southern states |
| Maize Flour | Refers to the highly refined and very finely ground maize meal from which all bran and germ has been removed. |
| Maize Rice | Refers to the finely cut maize with bran and germ partly removed; also called mealie rice. |
| Malabsorption Syndrome | Refers to the defect of absorption one or more nutrients; signs include diarrhoea, steatorrhoea, abdominal distension weight loss and specific sings of the nutrient deficiency. |
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