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Food (publications in chronological order)

397. Chesson, L.A., J.R. Ehleringer, and T.E. Cerling. 2009. American fast food isn’t all corn-based. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106E8, doi:10.1074/pnas.0811787106. PDF

402. Chesson, L.A., D.W. Podlesak, T.E. Cerling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2009. Evaluating uncertainty in the calculation of non-exchangeable hydrogen fractions within organic materials. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 23:1275-1280. PDF

405. Chesson, L.A., D.W. Podlesak, B.R. Erkkila, T.E. Cerling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2009. Isotopic consequences of consumer food choice: hydrogen and oxygen stable isotope ratios in foods from fast food restaurants versus supermarkets. Food Chemistry 119:1250-1256; doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2009.07.046. PDF

423. Chesson, L.A., B.J. Tipple, B.R. Erkkila, T.E. Cerling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2011. B-HIVE: Beeswax Hydrogen Isotopes as Validation of Environment. Part 1. Bulk honey and honeycomb stable isotope analysis. Food Chemistry 125:576-581; doi:10.1016/j/foodchem.2010.09.050. PDF

425. Martinelli, L.A., G.B. Nardoto, L.A. Chesson, F.D. Rinaldi, J.P.H.B. Ometto, T.E. Cerling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2011. Worldwide stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes of Big Mac® patties: an example of a truly “glocal” food. Food Chemistry 127:1712-1718. doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2011.02.046. PDF

431. Chesson, L.A., J.R. Ehleringer, and T.E. Cerling. 2011. Light-element isotopes (H, C, N, and O) as tracers of human diet: a case study on fast food meals, pages 707-723. Chapter 33. In M. Baskaran (ed.), Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry. Advances in Isotope Geochemistry. Springer Verlag, Berlin. PDF

436. Tipple, B.J., L.A. Chesson, B.R. Erkkila, T.E. Cerling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2012. B-HIVE: Beeswax hydrogen isotopes as validation of environment. Part II. Compound-specific hydrogen isotope analysis. Food Chemistry 134(1):494-501. doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.02.106. PDF
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486. Ehleringer. J.R. Interpreting stable isotope ratios in plants and plant-based foods. 2017. In J.F. Carter and L.A. Chesson (eds.), Food Forensics – Stable Isotopes as a Guide to Authenticity and Origin, pages 46-62. CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton. PDF

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