Pomegranate Peel Powder as a Food Preservative in Fruit Salad: A Sustainable Approach

Nutritional Composition of Detanninated and Fresh Pomegranate Peel Powder

Pomegranate (Punica granatum) peel is a nutritive, antioxidant rich byproduct, easily available after production of pomegranate juice and ready to eat arils. The present study is undertaken to know the nutritional importance of fresh and detanninated pomegranate peel powder. Fresh pomegranate peel collected after juice extraction from Bhagwa variety of pomegranate. Fresh peels were crushed fine...

Efficiency in phenol removal from aqueous solutions of pomegranate peel ash as a natural adsorbent

Background: Phenol is an organic pollutant found in industrial effluents that is very toxic to humans and the environment. This study used pomegranate peel ash as a natural absorbent to remove phenol from aqueous solutions. Methods: In this study, pomegranate peel ash in different doses was used as a new adsorbent for the removal of phenol. The effects of contact time, pH, adsorbent dose and i...

Food Safety Accounting: As a Novel Interdisciplinary Approach in Iran

Fruit Salad

Paul Erdős liked fruit salad. I mixed this one for him from ingredients obtained while working on some of his problems. He was pleased by it and carried it to several places to offer to others as well. It is very sad that I have to add to the manuscript: dedicated to his memory. 1. Nearly bipartite graphs. Szentendre, 1994. Although we are in the shade, the summer afternoon is very hot, the wat...

Pomegranate Fruit as a Rich Source of Biologically Active Compounds

Pomegranate is a widely used plant having medicinal properties. In this review, we have mainly focused on the already published data from our laboratory pertaining to the effect of methanol extract of pericarp of pomegranate (PME) and have compared it with other relevant literatures on Punica. Earlier, we had shown its antiproliferative effect using human breast (MCF-7, MDA MB-231), and endomet...