Pasta products enriched with moringa sprout powder as nutritive dense foods with bioactive potential

Investigation of physicochemical properties of pasta enriched with donalilasalina with the highest amount of bioactive compounds

Enrichment of food products with algae, which are inexpensive substances for human consumption and are rich in protein, carotenoids, antioxidants, omega-3s and fatty acids, are very important in terms of nutritional value. The aim of this study was to investigate the physicochemical and sensory properties of Fermi pasta containing Donalina salina (0, 1.5, 3, 4.5 and 6%) and to determine the bes...

Technological functionality, sensory properties, and nutritional value of pasta products enriched with different dietary fiber resources: a review

Today, due to the interest of consumers in nutritional properties of food, the demands for the production of functional foods have increased. Pasta is one of the most important and high-quality cereals products that has gained a special position for the production of functional foods, due to its high nutritional value, reasonable prices, ease of production and maintenance, and quality stability...

Phytochemicals Components as Bioactive Foods

Electrospun bioactive mats enriched with Ca-polyphosphate/retinol nanospheres as potential wound dressing

Background While electrospun materials have been frequently used in tissue engineering no wound dressings exist that significantly improved wound healing effectively. Methods We succeeded to fabricate three-dimensional (3D) electrospun poly(D,l-lactide) (PLA) fiber mats into which nanospheres, formed from amorphous calcium polyphosphate (polyP) nanoparticles (NP) and encapsulated retinol ("re...

Moringa Oleifera Leaf as Functional Food Powder: Characterization and Uses

Moringa oleifera commonly known as drumstick, horse radish, shobhanjana, murungai, soanjna, shajna, sainjna is often referred as “mother’s best friend” is a plant found wide applications in food and allied fields due to rich source of diverse range of nutrients and bioactive materials. Moringa is considered as one of the world’s most useful plant per available literature and thus all the plant ...