"food uptake" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It refers to the process of consuming or taking in food. You can use it in situations where you want to discuss or describe the act of eating or the absorption of nutrients from food. Example: The doctor advised the patient to track their food uptake in order to monitor their dietary intake and make healthier choices.
Despite growing interest in the use of insects as food, uptake of insect-based foods in Europe is low.
In addition to the exposure to HMs via food uptake, land snails regularly eat soil and they are also exposed to HMs via epithelial contact [40].
The method can be improved by using NOAELoral from laboratory test organisms and data of food uptake as well as body weight of wildlife.
In laboratory studies, the ingestion of large amounts of microplastics mainly led to a lower food uptake and, consequently, reduced energy reserves and effects on other physiological functions.
The biomass increase in adult worms was also a useful indicator of food uptake, and this was comparable for our spiked food and spiked soil experiments.
Notwithstanding the impacted food uptake of L. conchilega, the tubeworm maintains its functional role in the presence of predators in soft-bottom intertidal areas.
Moreover, chemicals such as cadmium (Cd) are known to affect food uptake, e.g. via feeding inhibition, hence energy budget results could be because of decreased uptake and not direct toxicity.
The main food uptake mechanism of the studied ciliates was surface dwelling, which permits ingestion rates of ciliates to be higher in sediment-associated bacteria than those in suspension.
Changes were observed in the group with the highest PFOS dose (20 mg/kg/day) including reduced activity, lethargy, reduced food uptake, and an apparent loss of body weight.
While some animal groups possess a sack-like gut, others possess a tube shaped alimentary canal with an opening for food uptake, the mouth, and an opening for defecation, the anus.
The combination of a 14C-tracer labelling technique with a fast (<3 h) and representative sub-sampling and handling makes it possible to measure changes in food uptake of freshly collected natural zooplankton communities in a short-term assay.
