Xxxiii. the Antiscorbutic Value of Cabbage. I. the Antiscorbutic and Growth Promoting Properties of Raw and Heated Cabbage

The Effect of Drying and of Sulfur Dioxide upon the Antiscorbutic Property of Fruits.*

The most important antiscorbutic foods are now known to be the fruits and vegetables, and it is usually considered that these foods are chiefly, if not onIy, vahrable for this property when used fresh. Holst and E’riihlich (1) showed that cooking and canning or drying greatly decreased the antiscorbutic value of a variety of foods. Since the danger of scurvy is greatest under those circumstance...

Vitamin C in Vegetables

The oxidation of ascorbic acid to dehydroascorbic acid may be cat,alyzed by copper (1, 8)) by ot,her metals (11) and metallic compounds, by norit charcoal (5)) and by an enzyme or enzyme complex (12, 13). The dehydroascorbic acid has an antiscorbutic activity similar to that of ascorbic acid (6) and may be reduced to the latter by the use of H,S and other reductants (14) The existence of ascorb...

Marketing Performance of Salad Vegetables: The Case of Cabbage Marketing in Abia State, Nigeria

This study analyzed the performance of cabbage marketing in Abia State, Nigeria. Specifically the study sought to: describe socio-economic characteristics of cabbage marketers; identify marketing channels of cabbage; determine marketing cost components of cabbage marketers; determine marketing margins, market share and marketing efficiency of cabbage marketers; and determine socio-economic fact...

Protective role of exogenous SNP against heavy metal toxicity in Brassica oleracea (var. Capitata) Narsingh Bahadur Singh*, Himani Singh and Sunaina

The present study is focused on the importance of SNP, a NO donor, as Cd stress modulator on seedlings of cabbage. The exogenously applied Cd induced stress in cabbage seedlings to explore the protective role of SNP. 21-day-old seedlings were grown in Hoagland solution and Cd at 0.5 and 0.7 mM concentration with and without SNP. The biophysical and biochemical parameters were analyzed. Cd exhib...

Evaluation of soil-applied systemic insecticides against cabbage aphid,brevicoryne brassicae and resultant survival of the primary parasitoid diaeretiella rapae on cabbage